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When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

I felt confident that his inherited knowledge and instincts would soon assert themselves, given the chance, and in spite of his {lion} breeding. I must admit that I did not feel the same confidence...

This is what happens to those who sit still. People who did nothing ended up with nothing lives lived on nothing furniture inside a nothing space doing nothing watching nothing being nothing. They...

It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their...

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

Where did you go? Around. The weather was good? Yeah. It didn't rain? Nope. That's good. Yeah. Talking like this is like throwing small, round stones __ nothing can be built from them, except perhaps...

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.

Most people have a way of radiating their potential – not just what they are, but what they could become.

It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying?'Because,' Morrie continued, 'most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the...

My favored mulching method is to cover the ground between rows of plants with a year's worth of our saved newspapers; the paper and soy-based ink will decompose by autumn. Then we cover all that...

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the...

This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.

They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and...

We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance and amplify impotence. But this was not all: Telegraphy also made public discourse essentially...

Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.

So few American novels have happy endings. Perhaps this is not surprising in a nation whose declaration of independence provides its citizens not with the right to happiness, but the right to its...

Give up grasping and see things as they are. THE SEVENTH DALAI LAMA

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

There are some people who start off knowing very little about the world and end up years later knowing even less. Never underestimate the capacity of the human mind for ignorance. Mr. Woodhouse found...

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.