"The human mind isn't a terribly logical or……" — Jim Butcher
"The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people."
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474 Quotes by Jim Butcher
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No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst…
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Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what…
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A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care…
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Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s…
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If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.
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Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a…
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I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a…
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Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I…
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Death is only frightening from the near side.
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Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created…
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Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in…
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I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
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— Christian Bale
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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