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- Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
- Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
- Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
- The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.
- Terry Pratchett, Eric
- I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
- You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.
- Bob Dylan (1941 - ), Subterranean Homesick Blues
- The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know.
- Patricia E. Presutti, 1986 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
- Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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