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I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.
Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the Internet.
I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late.
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present
The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.
Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
I don't think kids of color should have to search far and wide to find books that reflect their experience.
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.
She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.
It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.
We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.
But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.
Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.
In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.
I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.
Part of what I do, after feeling invisible for a long time, is make an effort not to be invisible any more.
There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.
So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.
Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
It was a cheesy cheeseball, covered with Cheez Whiz and served on a bed of Cheez-Its. With a side of queso.
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.
The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.