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Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk. — Diane Ackerman
In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who… — Mark Jason Dominus
What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as… — Thomas Frank
First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its essential spirit. Then,… — Malcolm Cowley
Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and… — Harry Browne
Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck. — Swami Vivekananda
When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his… — Zhuangzi
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the… — Karl Shapiro
Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and… — Diane Sawyer
I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national… — King Hussein I
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic… — Julius Wellhausen
I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire… — Ozzie Smith
Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as… — Peter Kropotkin
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish. — Hermann Hesse
He has an armload of irises and daisies and tulips and he presents them to me. I didn't know what kind of flowers you like.I… — Carrie Jones
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it. — Louis L'Amour
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies — Aristotle
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free… — Noam Chomsky
The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important people from where… — Timothy Gallwey
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural… — Northrop Frye
The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but… — Raymond Chandler
A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s… — George Saunders
The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and… — Max Stirner
When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned.… — Tom Robbins
American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas. — Nikki Haley

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