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The reality distortion field was a confounding mlange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand, Walter Isaacson
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to..."
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Edward Abbey quote: "When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's..."
When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in. Edward Abbey
Imaginary’ universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed ‘real’ one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician’s fancy must be rejected, as soon as they have been created, for the brutal but sufficient reason that they do not fit the facts. G. H. Hardy
The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage,... David O. McKay
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new..."
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them. Zora Neale Hurston
Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer. Ray Bradbury
It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vices perhaps they should be called-- were too strong not to hamper a man without advantages; who should be as cold-blooded as a fish and as selfish as a pig to have a really good chance of being one of his country's worthies. You may ridicule me--I am quite willing that you should-- I am a fit subject, no doubt. But I think if you knew what I have gone through these last few years you would rather... Thomas Hardy
The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit. Douglas Adams
I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering. Charles Bukowski
You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes. Oswald Chambers
Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity-he saw the all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of the weak and timorous against the strong and enterprising, of the botched against the fit. H. L. Mencken
Vladimir Mayakovsky quote: "Maria! How can I fit a tender word into bulging ears?"
Maria! How can I fit a tender word into bulging ears? Vladimir Mayakovsky
Although to restless and ardent minds, morning may be the fitting season for exertion and activity, it is not always at that time that hope is strongest or the spirit most sanguine and buoyant. Charles Dickens
We mostly understand ourselves through an endless series of stories told to ourselves by ourselves and others. The so-called facts of our individual worlds are highly coloured and arbitrary, facts that fit whatever reality we have chosen to believe in. . . . It may be that to understand ourselves as fictions, is to understand ourselves as fully as we can. Jeanette Winterson

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