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The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so. Jane Jacobs
It just goes to show you: you can put nine thousand miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he’ll haunt you. Jodi Picoult
George R. R. Martin quote: "If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor."
If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor. George R. R. Martin
An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal. Martin Luther King jr.
I think it's a worthy undertaking--to provide a decent apartment for a man who earns fifteen dollars a week. But not at the expense of other men. Not if it raises the taxes, raises all the other rents and makes the man who earns forty live in a rat hole. Ayn Rand
John Osborne quote: "Jimmy: I hope you won't make the mistake of thinking for one..."
Jimmy: I hope you won't make the mistake of thinking for one moment that I am a gentleman. John Osborne
Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it Leo Tolstoy
Tad Williams quote: "Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and..."
Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all. Tad Williams
The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you. Paulo Coelho
I think about the reader. I care about the reader. Not “audience.” Not “readership.” Just the reader. That one person, alone in a room, whose time I’m asking for. I want my books to be worth the reader’s time, and that’s why I don’t publish the books I’ve written that don’t meet this criterion, and why I don’t publish the books I do until they’re ready. The novels I love are novels I live for. They make me feel smarter, more alive, more tender toward the world. I hope, with my own books, to... Jeffrey Eugenides
Richard's ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him, like Muses or Furies. It was like having seven superegos arranged in a firing squad before a single beleaguered id, making sure he didn't enjoy that last cigarette. Neal Stephenson
Baptists: I'm a pious guy, but even I have my limits. I draw the line right around spending 8 hours in church every Sunday. Church should be a solemn 45 minutes to sit quietly and feel guilty, with donuts at the end to make you feel better. I don't go in for a full day of singing and dancing and rejoicing, no matter how nice the hats are. I prefer my Gospel monotonously droned to me from a pulpit, thank you very much. Stephen Colbert
...why do we make it all seem like a crisis, over and over again? Why do we worry it all to death, like dogs with socks or chew-toys? 'Look at it this way...In a hundred years? - All new people. Anne Lamott
A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: “Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.” Here is the essence of mankind’s creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatazoa attacking an ovum. Dan Simmons
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well..."
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. Kurt Vonnegut

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