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I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years. Warren Ellis
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them. James Boswell
When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government Thomas Paine
Ernest Hemingway quote: "I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things."
I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things. Ernest Hemingway
Whether or not any of us become racists is a choice we make. And we are called to choose again and again where we stand on the issue of racism at different moments in our life. Bell Hooks
Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [....] Reticulated : Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities. Samuel Johnson
Martin Buber quote: "Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists..."
Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.. Martin Buber
J. M. Coetzee quote: "... but what do slow and fast matter any more?"
... but what do slow and fast matter any more? J. M. Coetzee
To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your lifewhile you're living. Mitch Albom
The main hallway of the Sternwood place was two stories high. Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop of Indian elephants, there was a broad stained-glass panel showing a knight in dark armor rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn’t have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair. The knight had pushed the vizor of his helmet back to be sociable, and he was fiddling with the knots on the ropes that tied the lady to the tree and not getting anywhere. I... Raymond Chandler
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself. Robert A. Heinlein
There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum. Isaac Asimov
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation. Michael Pollan
I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Henry David Thoreau
TRIGORIN Why do I hear a note of sadness that wrings my heart in this cry of a pure soul? If at any time you should have need of my life, come and take it. Anton Chekhov

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