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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them,… — Galileo Galilei
Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the… — Joseph Brodsky
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a… — William P. Young
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to… — Boris Pasternak
I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip… — Michel Houellebecq
A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist. — Ilona Andrews
Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that… — N.D. Wilson
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and… — Erich Fromm
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think… — C.S. Lewis
There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot… — M. Russell Ballard
beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is… — Charles Bukowski
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. — Simone Weil
The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none… — Theodore Dreiser
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make… — Jane Yolen
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run… — Alvin Toffler
Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual… — Robert A. Heinlein

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