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She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.
We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.
I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?
Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive.
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!
I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.
The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.
A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
You know, if I'm in a bad mood, I always look at the chessboard, just to find something that can cheer me up.
The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.
We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.
There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.
Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.
One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.
Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.
Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.
Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.
Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.
She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.