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A random selection of fabulous
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Frederick William Robertson
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
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Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
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Rosalind Russell
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
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Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
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Philip K. Dick
There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass... unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion. What are it's real motives And who sent it here in the first place It only looks like crab grass. That's what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it'll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose
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Mark Twain
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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Clive Staples Lewis
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him.
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John Berger
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Benjamin Disraeli
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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Thomas a Kempis
Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
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