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Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you… — Terry Pratchett
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but… — Anne Rice
There you go. Use your granddaughter to pick up women. That'll get you points in heaven. — Jennifer Rardin
The various forms of education or â€˜normalizationâ€™ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a… — Gilles Deleuze
Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my… — Vladimir Nabokov
We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a… — Alain de Botton
What you call idiot points, I call awesome dollars. ~Seth — Brandon Mull
If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him… — Delphine de Vigan
[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dÃ©nouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dÃ©nouement constantly… — Edgar Allan Poe
The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to… — William A. Dembski
...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points. — Ray Bradbury
A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were… — Dennis Lehane
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two… — Beryl Markham
Miss Granger, you foolish girl, how could you think of tackling a mountain troll on your own? Five points will be taken from Gryffindor for… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms… — Patricia Highsmith
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of… — Andre Agassi
There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now… — Alain Robbe-Grillet
Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes… — Ben Aaronovitch
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant
The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that… — Eckhart Tolle

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