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Quotes by Author
"The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law."
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"My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis."
78
"Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting Do not identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thinking leads to a very serious dysfunction in ones sense of identity."
78
"You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness."
77
"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."
77
"God always wants us to see things from heaven's prospective. You may not be doing much to your community but what you are is so important. You are significant."
77
"I grieve nothing. I take everything."
77
"Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less."
Want,
77
"Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway."
77
"So why don't we take the step of setting goals for ourselves? One reason that stands out is that we aren't willing to accept full responsibility for our lives. If we don't set goals, then we don't have to reach them. Another excuse is that goal setting has never been part of our lives or culture. As a result, we may end up mixing with people who have no clear idea where they are headed, becoming a person who "follows the followers."
77
"The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing mentality."
77
"How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing."
77
"Vents were added to the rear bonnet in 1972 and resulted in wet engines and starting problems, and then extra drip-trays to compensate. From 1968 the Beetle got the right side fuel flap that dodgy people used to break open to steal your gas " or your fuel cap " another hard to find item if lost!"
77
"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
77
"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity."
77
"It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability."
77
"What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?''Cats don't have names,' it said.'No?' said Coraline.'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."
76
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."
76
"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
76
"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."
76
"The challenges you are passing through today, are only preparing you for your success tomorrow."
76
"Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren't satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other."
76
"Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction -- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn ... No -- Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it was what prayed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and the short-winded elations of men."
76
"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."
76
"A normal fighter in the street fights in a different way than a disciplined boxer, but a boxer is from the other world, it's a big difference. A boxer can throw a six-inch punch. A six-inch punch can knock you clean down. I'm very wary of those boxers, I can tell you. If you get a boxer that can street fight and he mixes it together then it makes a lethal combination! I mixed boxing and street fighting in to a cocktail and when I knocked them down I kept them down by use of the boot."
75
"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
75
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
75
"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."
75
"Boot camp sucks - SEAL training sucks - but you know what? That's what makes you good."
75
"We may differ on many things, but what we respect is freeinquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement betweenProfessor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins,concerning "punctuated evolution and the unfilled gaps in post-Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shallresolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication."
75
"There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it."
75
"True friends chop the onions and cry together."
75
"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."
75
"Each day I wake up with a naive perspective of life and universe, and walk towards understanding a little more about the true nature of human perception with all its vivacious nuances and behavioral expressions."
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