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Stephen King quote: "Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come..."
Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back. Stephen King
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify hisown spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, staywhere you are. Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeededby content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come againinto being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. Sun Tzu
Desmond Tutu quote: "Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread,..."
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back. Desmond Tutu
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to. Dave Barry
Harry Crews quote: "If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come..."
If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it. Harry Crews
He took a sip of my father’s weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit’s like making love in a canoe." "Excuse me?" "It’s fucking near water. David Sedaris
The columns of mounted men moved forward, passed out through the gates of the Palace of Karma, turned off the roadway and headed up the slope that lay to the southeast of the city of Mahartha, comrades blazing like the dawn at their back. Roger Zelazny
Such a captive maiden, having plenty of time to think, soon realizes that her tower, its height and architecture, are like her ego only incidental: that what really keeps her where she is is magic, anonymous and malignant, visited on her from outside and for no reason at all. Having no apparatus except gut fear and female cunning to examine this formless magic, to understand how it works, how to measure its field strength, count its lines of force, she may fall back on superstition, or take... Thomas Pynchon
Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food. John Cage
He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor. Raymond Chandler
By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, thy bleeding feet we track. Toiling up new Calv'ries ever with the cross that turns not back. New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth. We must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth James Russell Lowell
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to..."
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. Lois McMaster Bujold
The real moon, if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else... no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden. C. S. Lewis
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing? to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from? my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. C. S. Lewis
This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on earth to begin taking the actions necessary to stop this culture from destroying every living thing. Derrick Jensen

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