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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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It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the…
— Gautama Buddha
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Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic…
— Lawrence Lessig
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When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us…
— Stasi Eldredge
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
— Ogden Nash
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Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often…
— Walter Scott
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David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.
— Dave Foley
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Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.
— Don Novello
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
— Walter Scott
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The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight…
— Oscar W. Firkins
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I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to…
— Pat Paulsen
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
— Franz Kafka
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