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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing… — Bell Hooks
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain… — Cormac McCarthy
In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always… — Paul Neilan
When Å vejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so… — Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek
Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just… — Julia Cameron
You cannot open the pages of the New Testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so 'new,' in every way, is… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
So long as youâ€™re not a snap, youâ€™re safe. (Nykyrian) Snapâ€¦Syn used that term. (Kiara) Single. NaÃ¯ve. Amateur. Person. (Nykyrian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility. — Anna Quindlen
The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as… — Joseph Campbell
The sentence completes its signification only with its last term. — Jacques Lacan
Nickâ€™s right, you are psychotic. (Talon) The correct term is sociopathic and yes, I am. But at least I have no delusions about myself. (Zarek)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother. — Edgar Allan Poe
Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the… — Robert Louis Stevenson
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision… — Don DeLillo
[O]ur own bodies are changing every second. Yet we take the body to be our Self; and, speaking in terms of it, we say, â€œI… — Swami Satchidananda
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To… — Paul Auster
Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them. — Christopher Pike
There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and… — Vladimir Nabokov

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