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Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon
The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.
You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.
Don't let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.
I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you.
You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.
Your woman wears underwear out in public,” Sabin said. “Must be nice. How’d you manage that little miracle?” “Only the Deity knows.
There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day.
Anya jumped in front of the man, acting as his shield. “Now, Sabin. He didn’t mean any harm. He’s borderline stupid. You know that.
Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.
The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.
Things will be all right. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn't anything I would change about my life.
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.
The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
I really feel like people who want to change things need to go out and change it themselves and not look to politicians to do that.
Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.
Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.
Regret is… an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.
Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters.
The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.
The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.
The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.
She needs someone who will be everything for her: her friend, her boyfriend, her confidant, her lover and sometimes even her enemy.
Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.
The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life.
Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
All the members of terrorist organizations, even those that portray themselves as Muslim organizations.....they are all Darwinists.
Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.
Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line . . .
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.
Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.
I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.
Judaism is not a religion. At best, it is a racial credo, designed to maintain racial cohesion, in this case the Khazar bloodlines.
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.
Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last
Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.
I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.
A real friend will not visit you in prosperity unless he is invited, but when you are in adversity he will call without invitation.
A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.