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Wells Quotes (page 164)

Plutarch quote: "It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory..."
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Plutarch
It doesn't matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you're not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren't connected, aren't working together harmoniously, well, you're just hopping through life on one leg. You may think you're walking, you may think you're running a damn marathon, but you're only on a hop trip. The connections gotta be maintained. Tom Robbins
I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job. Dorothy L. Sayers
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. Ursula K. Le Guin
Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these assumptions are of a philosophical character; we act on them in private life, in politics, in our work, and in every other sphere of our lives -- but while some of these assumptions are no doubt true, it is likely, that more are false and some are harmful. So the critical examination of our presuppositions -- which is a philosophical activity -- is morally as well as... Karl Popper
I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. Abraham Maslow
Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way. Clive Barker
Terry Prachett quote: "Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there...."
Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck. Terry Prachett
Bob Monkhouse quote: "People used to laugh at me when I said I wanted to be a..."
People used to laugh at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well they're not laughing now. Bob Monkhouse
I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists] live. Where's that? Well, in our nation's capital and New York City. I've seen it. I've lived there. John McCain
Jerry Seinfeld quote: "The best revenge is living well."
The best revenge is living well. Jerry Seinfeld
Eric Liddell quote: "In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there..."
In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best. Eric Liddell
Anthony de Mello quote: "Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer..."
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it. Anthony de Mello
you mean machines are like humans?"I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated. Haruki Murakami
She lifted her head. "It's easier," she said, slowly, "to be angry on someone else's behalf than on my own. And yet I find I have a well of anger in me, that I have been filling for years from my own hurts. If I spill it out in defense of another, I can deny it's mine. Emma Bull

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