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- Motherly love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
- Marion C. Garretty
- 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
- He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
- If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- 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
- 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
- Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 10-20-09
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