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- Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
- But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write…
- Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding…
- Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown:…
- You can get all A's and still flunk life.
- They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only…
- Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires…
- Ooooh," Kate groans, Kate herself now. "I'm so afraid." "I know." "What am I going to do?" "You mean right now?" "Yes." "We'll go to…
- One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance…
- Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people…
- Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond doubt the strangest?
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray