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God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation. Leslie Stephen
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way. Cornelia Funke
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. Agatha Christie
But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man? Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible... Napoleon Bonaparte
Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished. Victor Hugo
James Allen quote: "Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are..."
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. James Allen
Sigmund Freud quote: "Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy..."
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions. Sigmund Freud
It's precisely their diseases that people pride themselves on, and I do-more perhaps than anybody else. Let's not argue; my objection was absurd. But that aside, I am firmly convinced that not only excess of consciousness, but any consciousness at all is a disease. Fyodor Dostoevsky
If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairty tale from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Henry David Thoreau
R. A. Salvatore quote: "I've spared with demons from the Nine Hells themselves, I..."
I've spared with demons from the Nine Hells themselves, I shall barely break a sweat here today. R. A. Salvatore
Harvey Pekar quote: "I don't understand how an adult can write those last two..."
I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable. Harvey Pekar
Ezra Pound quote: "Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never..."
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound Ezra Pound
The insistence that somehow women are an endangered species that needs to be protected at all costs seems to me to be contrary to what's desirable for their view of themselves. And it just invests far more power in the male than is necessary. Fay Weldon
The people who work within these industries or public services know that there are basic flaws. But they are almost forced to ignore them and to concentrate instead on patching here, improving there, fighting the fire or caulking that crack. They are thus unable to take the innovation seriously, let alone to try to compete with it. They do not, as a rule, even notice it until it has grown so big as to encroach on their industry or service, by which time it has become irreversible. In the... Peter Drucker

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