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- Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
- Viktor Frankl, "Logotherapy in a Nutshell" Man's Search for Meaning (1959, 1962, 1985)
- The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
- Larry Wall
- This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
- Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
- Bob Marley (1945 - 1981), From "Zion Train" lyrics.
- And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.
- Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849), Agnes Grey
- One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. - Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below. - Theodosia Garrison
- It is not good that the man should be alone.
- Bible, Genesis ii. 18.
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