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Alexander Dumas quote: "We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes'..."
We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude. Alexander Dumas
The people who wrote the mediaeval ballads knew more about fairies than you do. It isn't only nice things that happen in fairyland. .…I never said it was wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was dangerous. Gilbert K. Chesterton
If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable. Benito Mussolini
Even if I overcompensate, nobody will ever want me. Not Seth. Not my folks. You can’t kiss someone who has no lips. Oh, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I’ll be anybody you want me to be Chuck Palahniuk
Viktor E. Frankl quote: "Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. Viktor E. Frankl
Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry's parents' wedding. J. K. Rowling
Poul Anderson quote: "A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose,..."
A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort. Poul Anderson
Our system requires a continuous supply of highly capable people who are so disgruntled with their jobs that they are willing to chew off their own arms to escape their bosses. Scott Adams
If you limit the search for truth and forbid men anywhere, in any way, to seek knowledge, you paralyze the vital force of truth itself. In the best sense of the word, Jesus was a radical. His religion has been so long identified with conservation -- often with conservatism of the obstinate and unyielding sort -- that it is almost startling for us sometimes to remember that all of the conservatism of his own times was against him; that it was the young, free, restless, sanguine, progressive... Phillips Brooks
You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while theywere stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet! Thomas Hardy
George Eliot quote: "I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me..."
I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me. George Eliot
Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like... But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen Suzanne Collins
The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises. Philip K. Dick
Alexander Pope quote: "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move..."
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Alexander Pope
A man is fit for neither business nor pleasure, who either cannot, or does not, command and direct his attention to the present object, and, in some degree, banish for that time all other objects from his thoughts. Philip Stanhope

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