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James Dewar quote: "A mind is like a parachute. It only functions when its open."
A mind is like a parachute. It only functions when its open. James Dewar
Oscar Wilde quote: "Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only..."
Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them! Oscar Wilde
Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.' What's the point of saying that to me? If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. I've always lived like this, and it's the only way I know how to go on living. If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back. I'd go to pieces, and the pieces would be blown away. Why can't you see that?... Haruki Murakami
You, you only, exist.We pass away, till at last,our passing is so immensethat you arise: beautiful moment,in all your suddenness,arising in love, or enchantedin the contraction of work.To you I belong, however time maywear me away. From you to youI go commanded. In betweenthe garland is hanging in chance; but if youtake it up and up and up: look:all becomes festival! Rainer Maria Rilke
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge Nathaniel Branden
One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one Clifford Geertz
B. F. Skinner quote: "The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with..."
The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity. B. F. Skinner
Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage...As chairman emeritus of the extreme right-wing National Organization for Marriage Orson Scott Card
Jack Johnson quote: "The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no..."
The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen. Jack Johnson
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition). Karl Marx
And this disease was called The Loneliness, because when you saw your home town dwindle to the size of your fist and then lemon-size and then pin-size and vanish in the fire-wake, you felt you had never been born, there was no town, you were nowhere, with space all around, nothing familiar, only other strange men. And when the state of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, or Montana vanished into cloud seas, and, doubly, when the United States shrank to a misted island and the entire planet Earth became... Ray Bradbury
Dylan Thomas quote: "Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies."
Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. Dylan Thomas
I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they're about people the writer doesn't like very much. Penelope Fitzgerald
Piers Anthony quote: "Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of..."
Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water. Piers Anthony
The "west"-what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end? Emile M. Cioran

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