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People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you’d never be confident of things like ‘My wife loves me’. But this is a bad argument. There can be plenty of evidence that somebody loves you. All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up. It isn’t purely inside feeling, like the feeling that priests call revelation. There are outside things to back up the inside feeling:... Richard Dawkins
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You've always stood it out again' me: now, I'll conquer ye, or kill ye!—one or t' other. I'll count every drop of blood there is in you, and take 'em, one by one, till ye give up!" Tom looked up to his master, and answered, "Mas'r, if you was sick, or in trouble, or dying, and I could save ye, I'd give ye my heart's blood; and, if taking every drop of blood in this poor old body would save your precious soul, I'd give 'em freely, as the Lord gave his for me. O, Mas'r! don't bring this great... Harriet Beecher Stowe
And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid! Anton Chekhov
I did get a colonic, but I've decided not write about it at length. I didn't find it helpful or enlightening. I can tell you want it felt like, though: It felt like someone shooting water up your butt. A. J. Jacobs
The plague spread and moved on. In the whole world only a few people were able to save themselves: the pure and the chosen, predestined to begin a new race of men and a new life, to renew and purify the earth; but these people were not seen anywhere by anybody, and nobody heard their voices or their words. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The door and windows are cut out (from the walls) to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space (within), that its use depends. Lao Tzu
Anne Lamott quote: "the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty."
the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Anne Lamott
J. D. Salinger quote: "Forgive the pessimism, if not the sonority. But I know how..."
Forgive the pessimism, if not the sonority. But I know how much you demand from a thing, you little bastard. J. D. Salinger
Philip K. Dick quote: "Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."
Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. Philip K. Dick
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t..."
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense. Madeleine L'Engle
For when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs all of the others ... the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have the less you worry.When you have a hundred francs in the world you are liable to the most craven panics. When you have three francs left, you are quite indifferent ... you are bored but you are not afraid. You think vaguely "I shall be starving in a day or two- shocking, isn't it?"... George Orwell
The end was contained in the beginning. But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive George Orwell
If I have viewed them from a certain angle, it is because, seen from there, that is how they looked--which may be due to prismatic distortion, but which is therefore what they also are, though unaware of being it. Jean Genet
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames. No light; but rather darkness visible. Served only to discover sights of wo? John Milton

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