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Hunter S. Thompson quote: "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,..."
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside. Hunter S. Thompson
I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our hearts get broken and out kids do scary things and our parents get old and don’t always remember to put pants on before they go out for a stroll. I don’t know why it’s not more like it is in the movies, why things don’t come out neatly and lessons can’t be learned when you’re in the mood for learning them, why love and grace often come in such... Anne Lamott
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here. Well, you can read and see what you think. Wendell Berry
What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone? Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured. Malcolm Gladwell
If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long. Thomas Pynchon
Brandon Lee quote: "It can't rain all the time - from The Crow"
It can't rain all the time - from The Crow Brandon Lee
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder?"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order?"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind Virginia Woolf
In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A great day, for sure, but not the beginning and certainly not the end of your friendship with a person you can't wait to talk about gardening with the for the next forty years. Mindy Kaling
Sholom Aleichem quote: "I mention her name and the old pain returns. Forget her, you..."
I mention her name and the old pain returns. Forget her, you say? How can you forget a living human being? Sholom Aleichem
Charles Darwin quote: "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs."
You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Charles Darwin
Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?"Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her knees before Mademoiselle Reisz, who took the glowing face between her two hands."Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth.... Kate Chopin
Anne Rice quote: "-You are on the verge of being truly mad.-No, not at all. Look..."
-You are on the verge of being truly mad.-No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See? Anne Rice
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. John Stuart Mill
Stephen Fry quote: "In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire."
In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire. Stephen Fry

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