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Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue. — Julian Baggini
With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring… — Angela Carter
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown;… — Terry Pratchett
Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of… — Terry Pratchett
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of… — E F Schumacher
once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right — Jerry Garcia
It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking… — Jonathan Safran Foer
When I heard the learnâ€™d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the… — Walt Whitman
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept… — Edith Wharton
We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural. — Josephine Baker
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could… — George Orwell
The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only… — Theodore Roosevelt
By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain… — Hugh Prather
The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize… — Henry Miller
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Donâ€™t concern yourself with being right in othersâ€™ eyes. And donâ€™t secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be… — Joshua Harris
Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying… — Jose Saramago
The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured. — Thomas S. Monson
Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemortâ€™s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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