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Arthur Koestler has 111 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
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If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
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The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
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In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
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No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…
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Popular Homely quotes from across the collection:
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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
— Martha Beck
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My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had…
— Michael Caine
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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it…
— Bruce Catton
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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
— William Shakespeare
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Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
— William Wordsworth
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I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.
— Kristen Bell
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I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
— Dolly Parton
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I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.
— Myrna Loy
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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
— Minna Antrim
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Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but…
— Unknown Author
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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
— Austin O'Malley
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