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He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is. Douglas Adams
Frank Herbert quote: "One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly..."
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim. Frank Herbert
We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it. Once a man is in debt he becomes a flesh and blood form of money, a walking investment. You can do what you like with him, you can work him to death or you can sell him. This cannot be called cruelty or greed because we are seeking only to recover our investment and that is a sacred duty. Barry Unsworth
The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff. Stevie Smith
George Soros quote: "It is much easier to put existing resources to better use,..."
It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist. George Soros
G. I. Gurdjieff quote: "Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not."
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not. G. I. Gurdjieff
I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I? as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again? it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul. L. M. Montgomery
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics-..."
Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics Kurt Vonnegut
Isaac Asimov quote: "It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of..."
It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research. Isaac Asimov
Margaret Atwood quote: "Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there..."
Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. Margaret Atwood
All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God… Steve Wozniak
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That means simply that it is foul to do to other men what men habitually, proudly, manfully do to women: use them as inanimate, empty, concave things; fuck them into submission; subordinate them through sex. Andrea Dworkin
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same fifty percent rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't...Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the voodoo lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles. It's all the same...so just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself... George Carlin
I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is... Edward Gorey

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