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- If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 12-06-05
- It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
- A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
- Robert Oxton Bolton
- Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
- Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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