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Oh happy he who still can hope in our dayto breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. (moby dick chap 26 p112) Herman Melville
Harper Lee quote: "Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried..."
Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him. Harper Lee
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "God doesn't need to punish us. He grants us a long enough..."
God doesn't need to punish us. He grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. Barbara Kingsolver
Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one Tupac Shakur
I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want. Voltaire
Richard Bach quote: "Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought...."
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god. Richard Bach
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. John Philpot Curran
Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations. J. R. R. Tolkien
Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing. John Steinbeck
Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us. Michael J. Fox
The cause of right is never lost, Leal. I've often thought the biggest damned fool in the world could to down in history as a great man if he would just consistently vote for the greatest good of the greatest number - Kilkenny Louis L'Amour
Ayn Rand quote: "That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of..."
That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it. Ayn Rand
So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, hadgaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms, missingincidents as if locusts had consumed a section of tapestry, as ifplaster loosened by the bombing had fallen away from a mural at night. Michael Ondaatje
Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It's dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it's not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you'd better watch out."Something bad might happen..."Impossible. But possibly something painful"-A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane Diane Duane

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