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Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and..."
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament. Arthur Conan Doyle
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "the servants used to say, 'he read himself silly,"
the servants used to say, 'he read himself silly, Fyodor Dostoevsky
You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be. Nora Ephron
I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people. Neil Gaiman
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded..."
Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either. Kurt Vonnegut
We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it). Alain de Botton
So, friends, what method should we use? Hard to choose. I could torch them in their love nest or butcher them in their fragrant bed. Euripides
our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions. Malcolm Gladwell
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world... Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken. Neal Stephenson
You get a glass tank, put it where the TV used to be, and all you get is a lizard—something so stupid that every time the maid moves a rock the lizard thinks it’s been relocated miles away. Chuck Palahniuk
The shepherds were invited to come and see. They saw. They trembled. They testified. They rejoiced. They saw Him wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger, the Prince of Peace...."At this Christmas season I extend to you the gift of determination to come and see..."A young man in deep trouble and despair said to me recently, 'It's all right for others to have a merry Christmas, but not me. It's no use. It's too late.'"...We can stay away and complain. We can stay away and nurse our... Marvin J. Ashton
Jane Goodall quote: "And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at..."
And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger. Jane Goodall
I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as well as a desire to learn and use every word in the English language that didn't sound pretentious or ditzy. Pat Conroy
Not him with great possessions should you in truth call blest; with better right does he claim the name of happy man who realizes how to make use of the gods' gifts wisely, is skilled to meet harsh poverty and endure, as one who dreads dishonor far more than death; a man like that for friends beloved, or for his country fears not to perish. Horace
Tom Robbins quote: "Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing..."
Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough. Tom Robbins

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