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A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes, but more indifferent to fate, and more capable of accepting the world without the tyrannous imposition of our human and temporary demands. Bertrand Russell
Katherine Grey was born with the power of managing old ladies, dogs, and small boys, and she did it without any apparent sense of strain. Agatha Christie
Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely and without reservation the bullest of bullsh*t that ever there was. It is a senseless delusion that does not even have the benefit of being harmless fun. It is a harmful bore. Harmful to the human spirit, harmful to the dignity and wonder of the real universe and the real power of the mind to think for itself. I hate astrology with a fervor that is almost... Stephen Fry
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. Vladimir Nabokov
This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out. Jodi Picoult
. . . I know who we are, and how we got that way. We are writers. We danced with the words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even saying it aloud, a thought danced with them: I can do this. This is who I am. A. Whitney Brown
Henry David Thoreau quote: "No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted..."
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. Henry David Thoreau
George MacDonald quote: "If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may..."
If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either. George MacDonald
I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light. Margaret Atwood
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "One should not attend even the end of the world without a good..."
One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. Robert A. Heinlein
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. A polite public will no more bear to read an authentic description of vice than a truly-refined English or American female will permit the word 'breeches' to be pronounced in her chaste hearing. And yet, madam, both are walking the world before our faces every day without much shocking us. If you were to blush every time they went by, what complexions you would have! William Makepeace Thackeray
She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it. George MacDonald
Dante Alighieri quote: "Che sanza speme vivemo in disio.That without hope we live in..."
Che sanza speme vivemo in disio.That without hope we live in desire. Dante Alighieri
So as not to feel the terrible burden of TIme that breaks your shoulders and bends you towards the earth, you must get drunk without respite. But drunk on what? On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you like. but get drunk. Charles Baudelaire
In my world, reserved Italians, heterosexual hairdressers, clouds without silver linings, ignoble savages, hard-hearted whores, advantageous ill-winds, sober Irishmen, and so on, are not permitted to exist. Martin Amis

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