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- People will always choose more money over more sex
- The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
- Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.
- You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
- There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good…
- You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author…
- Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
- One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
- Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores…
- maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at…
- A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from…
- I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more…
- Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself…
- I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
- I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't…
- Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find…
- Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store’s checkout girl grow horns. Imagine…
- It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault.…
- Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience…
- I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more…
- A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face…
- There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks…
- The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using…
- Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows.
- I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle