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In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.
Don't tell people they can do the impossible. Tell people that they can do the possible that they think is impossible.
Still, waking up this early was just wrong. “Why can’t people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?” I whined.
Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.
The angel rolled away the stone from Jesus' tomb, not to let the living Lord out, but to let unconvinced outsiders in.
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.
You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.
Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept.
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
You can't convince anyone of anything. You can only give them the right information, so that they convince themselves.
It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women.
What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.
Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.
When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.
You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.
We already live in a Perfect Universe, but It needs to be seen mentally before It can become a part of our experience.
The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
So we can see we must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.
Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.
It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.
Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.
I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
Being the patriarch means having to exercise discipline every waking moment, and that includes the second you wake up.
A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.
Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.