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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
- I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
- Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
- Robin Norwood
- If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
- It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The American Scholar, August 31, 1837
- The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
- Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
- Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together.
- Jane O'Reilly
- A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
- William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
- Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
- Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.
- Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
- There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 1642
- Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.
- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
- I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.
- Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
- If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
- I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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