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- We’d forgive most things if we knew the facts.
- Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
- Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
- Joseph Priestley
- My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
- Elmore Leonard
- He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
- So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.
- Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), The Shifting Realities of Phillip K. Dick
- Thou art God, and I am God and all that groks is God.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Stranger in a Strange Land
- I tell ya, if you want to disperse a crowd, start spittin' on 'em.
- Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask A Ninja, 06-08-07
- To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), Moby Dick, 1851
- He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), Siddhartha (1951), Chapter: Awakening
- Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part III, Act III, sc. 1
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