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- It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
- J. K. Rowling, Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- 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)
- I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
- 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
- Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.
- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
- The notion of picking one time of year to be decent to other people is obscene because it's actually validating the notion of being miserable wretches the rest of the year.
- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
- The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
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