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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.
Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.
I contemplated pride and love. All this contemplativeness. When will I be free of it?
I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.
Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.
We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.
Each day is a day that God has given us, and each moment of that day is in His hands.
We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.
With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day.
I know that great gifts come at a price, and that not all talent inspires admiration.
A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.
Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.
Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.
I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.
Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.
Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest.
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
You have to stand for the things that you believe in. You have to stay strong inside.
There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.
The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.
It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.
Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.
I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.
Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass.
People often miss things that don't exist--miss things that were but are not anymore.
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.
That’s right. Get thee behind me, bitches. I don’t got no time for you. Ha! (Tabitha)
Then why are we being shot at? (Syd) ’Cause the sonofabitch can’t tell time. (Steele)
Total evil. dang, his principal had been right all along... he really was demonspawn.
When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too.
When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body.
Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.
Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.
It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.