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

Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has...

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

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch...

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

They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't...

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

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.

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

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

And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life,...

There was a Lieutenant Procházka that didn't scold much. He only called his ordinance: "My graceful cow." His ordinance, such a Hibman, never heard him another improper. This hibman was so used so...

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...

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

There is nothing worse for working than a people like those bands, who can not read or write and only signs with three cruzinhas, which our Intendance knew very well, so that when we had money to get...

This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died-what I call your 'spiritual...

The Germans will be beaten in a few months. And Japan will be beaten a few months after that. If I were to give up my life now, it wouldn't be for my country. It would be for Cathcart and Korn. So I'm...

Pride precedes the fall. All glory is ephemeral. Icarus burned his wings. The human being liked to be a giant - but it's the fuck, comrade. There is no need to believe in chance and crack in the...

-Resuming, the Hungarians are a rabble that walks there {...} - There is also a Hungarian or another who is not to blame for being Hungarian.

- {...} Once I read, I declare obediently, that there was a great battle in which a Swedish king fell along with his faithful horse. They took both carcasses to Sweden, and now the two codes are...

We are all sent the dreams we yearn for, she thought; no matter how unhappy or fraught our waking world may be, we are sent dreams in which we can do the things the heart really wants us to do.

This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no...

In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A...

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinion about the things.

No one escapes from life alive.

At that moment Švejk looked as if he had fallen down from the sky from some other planet and he was now looking with naïve wonder at a new world where people were demanding from him idiotic nonsense...

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to...

Power is neither male or female.

Those who put themselves with double meaning conversations have to think first of what they are getting into. A straight person who speaks as he grew up the beak rarely takes in the tromb. And if it...

Here, in most cases, the entire logic was faded and the § has won, the §, he darkened the §, laughed §, threatened the §, and did not know forgiveness. They were jugglers of laws, decree-law...