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Otherness Quotes (page 364)

And next time we hear someone saying something like, 'We are pursuing this strategy because other strategies, when we had considered them, we concluded that, in terms of overall effectiveness, they were not sound strategies, which is why we enacted the one we are now embarked upon, which our enemies would like to see us fail, due to they hate freedom,' we will wait to see if the anchorperson cracks up, or chokes back a sob of disgust, and if he or she does not, we'll feel a bit insane, and... George Saunders
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. Martin Luther
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. Phyllis McGinley
Michel de Montaigne quote: "All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of..."
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own. Michel de Montaigne
Charles Dickens quote: "All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the..."
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Charles Dickens
Voltaire quote: "Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than..."
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden. Voltaire
Jose Saramago quote: " that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the..."
... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both. Jose Saramago
Philip K. Dick quote: "If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the..."
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. Philip K. Dick
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an..."
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. Jorge Luis Borges
When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble who are not experts in the Torah are accursed.' and as this pride increases, the 'subject' or study which confers such privilege will grow more and more complicated, the list of things forbidden will increase, till to get through a single day without supposed sin becomes like an elaborate... C. S. Lewis
I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place. John Buchan
People accuse me of having interiorized a feeling of racial inferiority, so that I attack my own culture out of self-hatred, because I want to be white. This is a tiresome argument. Tell me, is freedom then only for white people? Is it self-love to adhere to my ancestors' traditions and mutilate my daughters? To agree to be humiliated and powerless? To watch passively as my countrymen abuse women and slaughter each other in pointless disputes? When I came to a new culture, where I saw... Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Mercedes Lackey quote: "...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying."
...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying. Mercedes Lackey
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these are the moving impulses of our life. But it is only those who do not understand our people, who believe that our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives. We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many... Calvin Coolidge
When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge[1] and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellowmen,—is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to... Arthur Schopenhauer

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