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- No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
- It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do…
- How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and…
- It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that,…
- Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.
- Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes,…
- Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly)…
- The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to…
- It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of…
- An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
- Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There…
- My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
- Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and…
- Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left…
- Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
- His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to…
- History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to…
- English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English…
- I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure…
- There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold