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- Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
- Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794)
- Coincidences are a true paradox... on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities--seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren't there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences.
- Josh Tenenbaum, quoted in "The Power of Coincidence," Psychology Today, July 2004
- All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), On the Improvement of the Understanding
- Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), breakfast of champions (page 19)
- I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Breakfast of Champions (page 20)
- Take it from Richard, poor and lame,
what's begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanac
- I don't want to live in a world where I have to eat sugar-free sugar cookies.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 10-31-2006
- When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
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