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- You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Viscount Morley
- Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
- Queen Victoria, in a letter to King Leopold of Belgium, April 4, 1848
- Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
- Seymore Cray, on virtual memory
- Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- The first duty of love is to listen.
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
- The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
- Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - ), Still Life With Woodpecker
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