"The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is]……" — C.S. Lewis

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• Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters… — J. J. Abrams
• Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. — Ambrose Bierce
• I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there… — Octavia Butler
• I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they… — Marina Abramovic
• If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service… — Roger Babson
• In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and… — Thomas a Kempis
• The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton,"… — Kenneth Grahame
• Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what… — Glenn Close
• Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles,… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
• A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but… — Paul Dirac
• It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining. — Dan Millman
• It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms… — Johannes Kepler

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