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Robert M. Pirsig quote: "And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask..."
And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things? Robert M. Pirsig
It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give. Ursula K. Le Guin
That's another thing that pisses me off about that Michelangelo statue of me in Florence. He's got me standing there uncircumcised! Who the fuck did he think I was? Joseph Heller
Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden."But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!"I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing."That may be, but the muffins are the same! Oscar Wilde
You know me better than anyone, and you're my best friend. I don't think there's anything you could say to me that would lead me to believe that you're doing it just to hurt me. If there's one thing I've come to know about you, it's that you're not even capable of something like that. Why do you think I like spending time with you so much? Because you're a good guy. A nice guy. Nicholas Sparks
I always recognize the foces that will shape my life. I let them do their work. Sometimes they tear through my life like a hurricane. Sometimes they simply shift the ground under me, so that I stand on different earth, and something or someone has been swallowed up. I steady myself, in the earthquate. I lie down, and let the hurricane pass over me. I never fight. Afterwards I look around me, and I say, 'Ah, so this at least is left for me. And that dear person has also survived.' I... Josephine Hart
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet Adrienne Rich
John F. Kerry quote: "It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you..."
It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong. John F. Kerry
That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing. Ray Bradbury
[S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that anyone can decide this moment that he will never feel it anymore. That is not how things happen. I mean that every time it bobs its head up, day after day, year after year, all our lives long, we must hit it on the head. It is hard work, but the attempt is not impossible. C. S. Lewis
David McCullough quote: "The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to..."
The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it. David McCullough
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense. Michael Crichton
If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer. Hunter S. Thompson
Hippocrates quote: "There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one..."
There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance. Hippocrates

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