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- Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.
- Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
- Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1797
- The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978), Anthropologist (1901-1978)
- Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
- Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
- Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phrase of selfish, worldly society religion? Is that religion which is scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896), Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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