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Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean… — Terry Pratchett
I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about. — Terry Pratchett
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then… — Terry Pratchett
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right… — Orson Scott Card
The War is not over (and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost). But it is of course wrong… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to… — Garry Trudeau
There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his… — Samuel Gompers
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics.… — Gertrude Atherton
Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated,… — Carl Jung
The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no… — Mark Van Doren
If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at… — William James
There exists in our society widespread fear of judgingâ€¦[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence… — Hannah Arendt
This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never… — Hannah Arendt
Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it… — Homer
When a woman says nothing's wrong, that means everything's wrong. And when a woman says everything's wrong, that means everything's wrong! And when a woman… — Homer
You can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They look as good as they taste. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like… — Homer
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second… — Thucydides
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the… — Thucydides
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what… — Horace
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it,… — Ovid

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