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As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple.… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an… — Robert A. Heinlein
Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew… — Ilona Andrews
Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign… — Judith Butler
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid… — Isaac Asimov
I want you to always hold your head up and follow your dreams wherever they take you. Donâ€™t you ever listen to the people out… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Works for me. For the ones we love, today weâ€™re allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You rang, Mino- well, youâ€™re not really the Minor Master anymore, are you? What should I call you? (Asmodeus) Think of a polite term, demon.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try… — Sri Aurobindo
What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?"… — Erich Segal
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel --… — Robert Anton Wilson
No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one. — George Seldes
In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about King Herod slaughtering… — Bart D. Ehrman
Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal. — Jeremy Clarkson
Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God. — Patrick Rothfuss
What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any. — Stephan Pastis
If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and… — Harold S. Kushner
I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of… — Stephen King
I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in everything I do,… — Simone Elkeles

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