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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. Kurt Vonnegut
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the..."
Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest Robert Louis Stevenson
Winston Churchill quote: "Never in the history of human conflict, has so much been owed..."
Never in the history of human conflict, has so much been owed by so many, to so few. It was perhaps, their finest hour. Winston Churchill
I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.''That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us. Anne Bronte
It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybodys personality and there’s just different colours to a personality. Kelly Clarkson
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine... Mercedes Lackey
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort. Thomas Hardy
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read? and they have been many, big, and heavy? I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. Charles Sanders Peirce
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. Barry Lopez
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand quote: "To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many..."
To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs. Douglas Adams
Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.” — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year) Pete Seeger
I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children... Virginia Woolf
Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that blows Is all that any body knows Henry David Thoreau
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything. Fulton J. Sheen

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