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Sarah Vowell quote: "Relics are treasured as something close to the divine."

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

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First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII? and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. Douglas Adams
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If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery. Shirley Manson
People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realise what it has done. When the man’s punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins. It is really ashamed of its own actions, and shuns those whom it has punished, as people shun a creditor whose debt they cannot pay, or one on whom they have... Oscar Wilde
People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets. Ed Markey
Haruki Murakami quote: "In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry."
In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry. Haruki Murakami
I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that. Bryan Ferry
Theresa Osborne: If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful. Nicholas Sparks
I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible. Nicholas Sparks
YOUR COLD BLOOD CANNOT BE WORKED INTO A FEVER; YOUR VEINS ARE FULL OF ICE WATER; BUT MINE ARE BOILING, AND THE SIGHT OF SUCH CHILLNESS MAKES THEM DANCE. Emily Bronte
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San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen Ambrose Bierce
Confucius quote: "He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his..."
He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker. Confucius
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things. Richard Cecil
I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations! Helena Bonham Carter
[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up. Nora Roberts