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It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain. Paul Auster
I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in this, I must warn you that the army of the night has the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and, by its very nature, is immune to reason, so that it is entirely unlikely that you and I can win out. We will always remain a tiny and probably hopeless minority, but let us never tire of presenting our view, and of fighting the good fight for the right. Isaac Asimov
Richard P. Feynman quote: "Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but..."
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it. Richard P. Feynman
Mark Twain quote: "Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. Mark Twain
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you hadbeen as much used as myself to hear poor little children firstlearning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had everseen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and howtired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit ofseeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that totorment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonimouswords. Jane Austen
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong -..."
Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong. Robert A. Heinlein
Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth. Dodie Smith
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise. Maya Angelou
...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart. Steve Martin
You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you. Orson Scott Card
I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn’t understand why the happiness never came, couldn’t see the flaw in my thinking, couldn’t see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make... Heather King
James C. Dobson quote: "Don't marry the man you can live with, but marry the man you..."
Don't marry the man you can live with, but marry the man you can't live without. James C. Dobson
Dean Koontz quote: "Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher..."
Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore. Dean Koontz
The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors. Robert Fulghum
All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more. Betty Smith

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