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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
"The people who influence you are the people who believe in you."
"Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real."
"When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality."
"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
"It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity."
"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."
"Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man."
"See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security."
"I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber."
"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."
"Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself."
"A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy."
"He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles."
"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."
"There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving."
"Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals."
"We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!"
"It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race."
"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby."
"The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation."
"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."
"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
"Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties."
"In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment."
"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage."
"Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man."
"Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."
"On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial."
"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."
"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."
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