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For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like. Stefan Zweig
I ate in the morning what I would digest in the evening; I swallowed as a boy what I would ruminate upon as an older man. I have thoroughly absorbed these writings, implanting them not only in my memory but in my marrow. (Quoted by Josh Foer in Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything) Petrarch
If you will here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you, that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it. William Law
Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger. Booth Tarkington
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found..."
Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood, Flannery O'Connor
Charlotte Bronte quote: "[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived."
[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived. Charlotte Bronte
Orson Scott Card quote: "He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly"
He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly Orson Scott Card
Flann O'Brien quote: "My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and..."
My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. Flann O'Brien
What is most troubling, and sad, about industrial eating is how thoroughly it obscures all these relationships and connections. To go from the chicken (Gallus gallus) to the Chicken McNugget is to leave this world in a journey of forgetting that could hardly be more costly, not only in terms of the animal's pain but in our pleasure, too. But forgetting, or not knowing in the first place, is what the industrial food chain is all about, the principal reason it is so opaque, for if we could see... Michael Pollan
My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. C. S. Lewis
I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity! Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference. J. Michael Straczynski
god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country! Benjamin Franklin
If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then the general is to blame. But, if orders are clear and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their oficers. Sun Tzu
If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs. Doris Lessing

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