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William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "I would rather make my name then inherit it."
I would rather make my name then inherit it. William Makepeace Thackeray
When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily. James Lee Burke
Norman Mailer quote: "You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while..."
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant. Norman Mailer
The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience. Albert Einstein
There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it. Malcolm Gladwell
And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. Stephen King
W. H. Auden quote: "We were put on this earth to make things."
We were put on this earth to make things. W. H. Auden
...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it. Flannery O'Connor
I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him. Herman Melville
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again. Arthur Conan Doyle
What a silly thing love is! It is not half as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen and making one believe things that are not true. Oscar Wilde
Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.' But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.' I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.' But how many?' What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter. Madeleine L'Engle
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. Jean Baudrillard
Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it and fills it with props and buttresses and planks and scaffolding that he manages to keep the house standing only by making it impossible to live in it. Leo Tolstoy
Eric Hoffer quote: "It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And..."
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. Eric Hoffer

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