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Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.
There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.
Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.
Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself.
All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.
I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.
I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.
The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek.
First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.
Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'
The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.
Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.
Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.
There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.
The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.
When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.
Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?
There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.
Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.
There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.
She'll sting you one day, Oh, ever so gently, so you hardly ever feel it. 'til you fall dead.
Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.
Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.
A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.
Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.
You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.
The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
Have you ever been to Colorado?" I frowned. "Is that one of those square ones, in the middle?
We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.
If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.