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But the grind has begun. The windows donâ€™t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide… — Dave Eggers
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death… — Michel de Montaigne
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened… — Mortimer Adler
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among… — Marcel Proust
People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body… — Aleister Crowley
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may… — Robert Fulghum
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't.… — Lewis Carroll
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of… — Dorianne Laux
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. — Donna Tartt
But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end. — Aldous Huxley
We did not lack modestyâ€”on the contraryâ€”but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible. — Georges Bataille
Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.' Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does… — Edith Wharton
Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may… — Irenaeus of Lyons
I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to… — Lance Armstrong
It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing… — Gary L. Blackwood
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the… — A. J. Jacobs
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day,… — Thornton Wilder
The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are… — Wallace Stevens

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