I E Quotes
277 quotes by 230 authors
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I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their…
— Tamora Pierce
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Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the…
— Douglas Coupland
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Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have…
— David Foster Wallace
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David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and…
— Douglas Adams
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…“white supremacy†is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not…
— Bell Hooks
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Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of…
— Gilles Deleuze
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is…
— Karl Marx
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You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening.…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all.…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.
— Garth Nix
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What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I'm telling you people; its a zombie attack. Z to the Oto the M to the B to the I,E. ZOMBIE..." -Bubba
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and…
— David Foster Wallace
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Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which…
— Peter L. Berger
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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth)…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge…
— Enrico Fermi
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