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Judith Martin quote: "It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when..."
It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right. Judith Martin
Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make. Ayn Rand
The statement that there is any such thing, and the statement that there is no such thing, are niether of them statements that science can make. And real scientists do not usually make them. It is usually the journalists and popular novelists who have picked up a few odds and ends of half-baked science from textbooks who go in for them. C. S. Lewis
Oprah Winfrey quote: "Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if..."
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books. Oprah Winfrey
They say that characters were engraven on the bathtub of king Tching-thang to this effect: 'renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.' I can understand that. Morning brings back the heroic ages. Henry David Thoreau
Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges. Carlos Castaneda
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear--filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak... Abraham Joshua Heschel
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something..."
That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. Chuck Palahniuk
Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. Umberto Eco
Samuel Beckett quote: "From things about to disappear I turn away in time. To watch..."
From things about to disappear I turn away in time. To watch them out of sight, no, I can't do it. Samuel Beckett
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy. Chuck Palahniuk
Neil Gaiman quote: "You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always..."
You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it. Neil Gaiman
Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it? C. S. Lewis
I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of my books with a wedge...Months passed without my even thinking... Alex Haley
Astrid Lindgren quote: "But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?"
But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie? Astrid Lindgren

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