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We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: “It’s just that I thought maybe you were married to me.
...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.
You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.
Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles.
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.
I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.
These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.
The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down
At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.
I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.
The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.
None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.
The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to 'The Women's Room.'
Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.
Taste is idiosyncratic, so I don't love everything people recommend me, and I don't love everything my friends love.
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.
My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.
Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.
Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.
On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.
My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1.
Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.
I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.