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Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon. — Jack Johnson
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose — Winston Churchill
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid… — Isaac Asimov
She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She… — Oscar Wilde
Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal. — Jeremy Clarkson
Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort… — Donald Miller
You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather,… — J D Salinger
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite… — Christopher Hitchens
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you'… — Christopher Hitchens
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death. — Holly Lisle
Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may… — Michael Shermer
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition… — Jane Austen
Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what… — Frederica Mathewes-Green
The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to… — Stephen Batchelor
The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. Thatâ€™s the sound of being alive. Itâ€™s your… — Brom
It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief. — Christopher Pike
Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make… — Chetan Bhagat
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in… — Sigmund Freud
squats are a form of torture designed by people who donâ€™t need to do squats in the first place — Nora Roberts
â€¦the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others.… — Yukio Mishima

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