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You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small,' I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. 'Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.' I got all of these sayings at my tongue's end, used to go through the streets of Chicago muttering them to myself. Sherwood Anderson
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment. George Carlin
One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like... David Herbert Lawrence
A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. James Allen
If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly. C. S. Lewis
Norton Juster quote: "The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's..."
The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort Norton Juster
Because mankind can circumvent evolutionary law, it is incumbent upon him, say evolutionary biologists to develop another law to abide by if he wishes to survive, to not outstrip his food base. He must learn restraint. He must derive some other, wiser way of behaving toward the land. He must be more attentive to the biological imperatives of the system of sun-driven protoplasm upon which he, too, is still dependent. Not because he must, because he lacks inventiveness, but because herein... Barry Lopez
Ayn Rand quote: "There can be no compromise on moral principles."
There can be no compromise on moral principles. Ayn Rand
In It's Only Temporary, Evan Handler confronts the ambiguities of life backward, forward, and in between. With hilarious honesty he reflects on the realization that we can start over again. It's Only Temporary is a heartfelt book for all of us who are getting younger and older at the same time. Amy Tan
Tommy Lee quote: "So there we were shooting Jack Daniels into our veins, like..."
So there we were shooting Jack Daniels into our veins, like what the fuck we can just drink it. Tommy Lee
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest..."
Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gelett Burgess quote: "I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I can..."
I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one. Gelett Burgess
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay and a barn for human cattle. There is only one basic human right, the right to do... P. J. O'Rourke
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vladimir Lenin quote: "One man with a gun can control 100 without one. ... Make mass..."
One man with a gun can control 100 without one. ... Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms. Vladimir Lenin

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