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There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.
I haven't really used Loki at all in 'Thor: God of Thunder' or the previous volume of Thor.
The practice of Sufism is the intention to move toward truth by means of love and devotion.
Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales.
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.
Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive.
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.
I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.
You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.
Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance.
Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.
Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself.
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.
I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.
If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?
Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.
Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.
Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.
Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.
I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.
I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.
The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.