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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or…
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
— Sun Tzu
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Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess,…
— Robinson Jeffers
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Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name…
— Paulo Coelho
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It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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There is something in omens.
— Unknown Author
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I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each…
— Sam Keen
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Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
— Stacy Schiff
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The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually…
— Edna O'Brien
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All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
— Douglas Coupland
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Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect…
— Sam Keen
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Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.
— Paulo Coelho
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The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst…
— Jerry Saltz
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