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Richard Russo quote: "Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I..."
Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said? Richard Russo
You know what your trouble is? You're the kind whoalways reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have some specificpurpose. It's for doing something that somebody alreadyunderstands. But if it's new technology, it'll openareas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual, man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way. And you get all funny when somebody else uses it to dosomething you never thought of. William Gibson
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful. Marie Curie
She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years. Mark Helprin
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away. Graham Greene
Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use. Geoffrey Chaucer
During my last year in college I discovered that I was picking up the mannerisms of Akim Tamiroff, the only useful thing, in fact, that I learned in the entire four years. Walker Percy
I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility. Fran Lebowitz
The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as ghost, specter, poltergeist, angel, devil, or spirit, might there not be something more our purposeful blindness has prevented us from understanding? We accept the fact that there may be other worlds out in space, but might there not be other worlds here? Other worlds, in other dimensions, coexistent with this? If there are other worlds parallel to ours, are all the doors closed? Or does one,... Louis L'Amour
Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness. To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out. With wondrous potency. William Shakespeare
It is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some inanimate object; they used to undergo such metamorphoses in ancient times (or so they say), though whether that is myth or a true story I know not. Maybe it would be better to change one's nature into something that lacks all feeling, rather than be so sensitive to evil. Had that been possible, these calamities would in all probability have turned me to stone. Anna Comnena
C. S. Lewis quote: "Like all philosophers, Aristotle gives words the definitions..."
Like all philosophers, Aristotle gives words the definitions which will be most useful for his own purpose C. S. Lewis
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice..."
Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person. Chuck Palahniuk
People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know. Idries Shah
I used to think that kid might become a preacher. Now I don't see how he's going to stay out of prison. Nobody in this family ever went to prison for sex crimes. He'd be the first."Yes," says Jesus, "you never know about these things."He and Grandpa are drinking cups of coffee and eating ginger snaps. Grandpa says, "When are you planning to return to earth?"Soon as I finish this coffee," say Jesus. "Pretty good, isn't it. Garrison Keillor

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