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We get a lot of the sky is falling on the weather reports, so when something big does hit, people never expect it. If it's not as bad as the reports predicted, we complain. If it's worse than expected, we complain. If it's just as bad as predicted, we complain about that, too, because we'll say that the reports are wrong so often, there was no way to know they'd be right this time. It just gives people something to complain about. Nicholas Sparks
Ghosts must be pictured, if we are to picture them at all, as shadowy and tenuous, for ghosts are half-men ... if we must have a mental picture to symbolize Spirit, we should represent it as something heavier than matter. C. S. Lewis
Louisa May Alcott quote: "Better lose your life than your sou?"
Better lose your life than your sou? Louisa May Alcott
It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people. Bette Davis
Peter Ustinov quote: "If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us..."
If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing. Peter Ustinov
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "I love and am loved by a better man than he."
I love and am loved by a better man than he. Arthur Conan Doyle
You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they are were it not for constitutional indolence? Agatha Christie
All arguments between the traditional scientific view of man as organism, a locus of needs and drives, and a Christian view of man as a spiritual being not only unresolvable at the present level of discourse but are also profoundly boring... From the scientific view at least, a new model of man is needed, something other than man conceived as a locus of bio-psycho-sociological needs and drives. Such an anthropological model might be provided by semiotics, that is, the study of man as the... Walker Percy
It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists. Neal Stephenson
Steven Biko quote: "It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live..."
It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die Steven Biko
Protection, therefore, against tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the... John Stuart Mill
Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff. Erma Bombeck
Don't give anybody up. . . or leave anybody out. . . . There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your day the way it comes along and try not to be much later than you can help."--Spoken by Jack to Gloria Eudora Welty
There is nothing", answered he, "which requires more immediate notice than impertinence, for it ever encroaches when it is tolerated. Fanny Burney
Emily Bronte quote: "He's always, always in my mind? not as a pleasure, any more..."
He's always, always in my mind? not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself? but as my own being. Emily Bronte

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