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Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death. Terry Goodkind
Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going to be the richest and the most powerful as well. Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have. William Goldman
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. Baltasar Gracian
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person. Mark Twain
For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context ... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank. William S. Burroughs
Ram Dass quote: "It's very different because the Indians live as if they are..."
It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos. Ram Dass
Gustave Flaubert quote: "It was all her fortune. It seemed to her very fine thus to..."
It was all her fortune. It seemed to her very fine thus to throw it away. Gustave Flaubert
Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment. Michel de Montaigne
Harry S. Truman quote: "He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine..."
He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was still a windbag Harry S. Truman
Colin Powell quote: "Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we..."
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it. Colin Powell
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to..."
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. David Herbert Lawrence
There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it. James A. Garfield
For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned... Ralph Ellison
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. Albert Einstein
That would never do, I'm sure,' said Alice: `the governess would never think of excusing me lessons for that. If she couldn't remember my name, she'd call me "Miss!" as the servants do.' Well. if she said "Miss," and didn't say anything more,' the Gnat remarked, `of course you'd miss your lessons. That's a joke. I wish YOU had made it.' Why do you wish I had made it?' Alice asked. `It's a very bad one.' But the Gnat only sighed deeply, while two large tears came rolling down its cheeks.... Lewis Carroll

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