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Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisement said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that... Terry Prachett
It's worse in the case of newspapers. Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food." p. 201 F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. Madeleine L'Engle
No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods. C. S. Lewis
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him. Oswald Chambers
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it..."
I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. Joyce Carol Oates
Stephen King quote: "Each life makes its own imitation of immortality."
Each life makes its own imitation of immortality. Stephen King
Like man himself, who is the only one not to know his own glance, the [Eiffel] Tower is the only blind point f the total optical system of which it is the center and Paris the circumference. Roland Barthes
The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry. Robert Stone
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth. Simone de Beauvoir
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. Aristotle
J. K. Rowling quote: "it was his own grief turned magically to song"
it was his own grief turned magically to song J. K. Rowling
Julia Cameron quote: "We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and..."
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide. Julia Cameron
That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian D. Larson) Rhonda Byrne
And so now I'd like to say - people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. People are running about following their little tracks - I am one of them. But we've all got to stop just following our own little mouse trail. People can do anything - this is something that I'm beginning to learn. People are out there doing bad things to each other. That's because they've been dehumanised. It's time to take the humanity back into the center of the ring and... Joe Strummer

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