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Samuel Butler quote: "No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to..."

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

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Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced by a curious process of logic. According to this process, people first declare themselves to be followers of Christ, and then they assume that whatever they say or do merits the adjective "Christian". Wendell Berry
Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restuarants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out. David Sedaris
Do you feel insecure because you keep getting the nagging feeling that you're not that smart? Well, I've got good news for you, my friend. You have no need to be insecure. That nagging feeling is absolutely right on target. You are not that smart. But I have more good news for you. You are also not alone. Ellen DeGeneres
Andy Summers quote: "I don't have a great nostalgia for the past."
I don't have a great nostalgia for the past. Andy Summers
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The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance. Chen Shui-bian
George Eliot quote: "Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."
Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle. George Eliot
Thomas Otway quote: "Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal..."
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. Thomas Otway
The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it. Abdus Salam
Albert Camus quote: "The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. Albert Camus
You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts. Stedman Graham
In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being. David Herbert Lawrence
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best--Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest. John Clare
Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin. It is largely because of the books, films and reminiscences that have come between that the war of 1914-18 is now supposed to have had some tremendous, epic quality that the present one lacks. George Orwell