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He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction. Alain de Botton
Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence. Terry Goodkind
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness. Willa Cather
I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself. Daniel Schorr
Calvin Coolidge quote: "It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good..."
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. Calvin Coolidge
Alain de Botton quote: "Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of..."
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. Alain de Botton
Elizabeth Wurtzel quote: "Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that..."
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent Elizabeth Wurtzel
If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to the true believers of all the great religions of the world?" Birbal was a devout Brahmin from Trivikrampur, but he answered unhesitatingly, "I would say to them that in my opinion they were all atheists as well; I merely believe in one god less than each of them." "How so?" the Emperor asked. "All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own," said Birbal. ... Salman Rushdie
Terry Prachett quote: "It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than..."
It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there. Terry Prachett
I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time, and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.... I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me. Peter S. Beagle
There was no question about it- the girl in the photograph was staggeringly beautiful. She was Miss Canal Zone, a runner-up in the Miss Universe Contest -- and in fact far more beautiful than the winner of the contests. Her beauty had frightened the judges. Kurt Vonnegut
Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise. William Wilberforce
Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place? to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land. C. S. Lewis
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to..."
I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech. Jorge Luis Borges

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