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Emma Thompson quote: "I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn..."
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. Emma Thompson
You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. C. S. Lewis
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all. C. S. Lewis
As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting. Tom Robbins
George Carlin quote: "He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because..."
He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly. George Carlin
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action. Malcolm X
There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god. Stevie Smith
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing..."
Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up. Ursula K. Le Guin
Neil Gaiman quote: "I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is..."
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer. Neil Gaiman
I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak. Kurt Vonnegut
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. Dave Barry
It is a strangeworld, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, andtroubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make themall dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and drybones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, alldance together to the music that he make with thatsmileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and womenare like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us differentways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain... Bram Stoker
It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here. Kirstie Alley
Brian Tracy quote: "I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more..."
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often. Brian Tracy
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. Richard Dawkins

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