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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.
To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.
Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.
Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.
What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.
The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.
You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.
It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class
I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he
I'm becoming the street. Who are you in love with? me? Straight against the light I cross.
There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.
Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.
... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
In the event that we don't want to lose the Far East and Siberia, we need a united Europe.
There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.
I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.
All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.
Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.
How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.
There are, I believe, three steps to overcoming fear: name it, normalise it, socialise it.
It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution.
Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power.
Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.