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- When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Amores
- Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), The Washington Post Magazine
- One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are--your life, and nothing else.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), No Exit
- Between the desire
And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow - T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965), The Hollow Men
- The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.
- Elliot Perlman, Seven Types of Ambiguity
- I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
- Walt Disney (1901 - 1966), The Disney Way
- Evil is always possible, and goodness is eternally difficult.
- Anne Rice (1941 - ), Interview With the Vampire
- I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.
- Alice Walker (1944 - ), Democracy Now Feb. 13, 2006
- Acts of men are better than acts of God.
- Misato Katsuragi, Neon Genesis Evangelion
- The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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