"Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means."
Margaret Atwood
"Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic."
John Rawls
"The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed."
Robert M. Pirsig
"A ‘biomass’ man does not use logical and analytical thinking."
Sunday Adelaja
"The world seems to be witnessing a deluge of 'haterisms', and racist propaganda because evil's pain was born to die, and it's time of tyranny is near the end. Don't get caught up by the souls of wickedness; this ain't your fight. ~T.F. Hodge."
T.F. Hodge
"We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie."
Henry James
"Humor is the healthy way of feeling 'distance' between one's self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective."
Rollo May
"The whole world believes that performing good deeds is dharma (religion). Performing good deeds is known as laukik dharma (worldly religion, that religion which does not lead us to self-realization but binds merit karmas)."
Anonymous
"It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways."
Solange nicole
"To be scorned in the public because of your race is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society."
Sunday Adelaja
"...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion."
Nora Roberts
"Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor."
Euginia Herlihy
"While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is to set the stage, to pull the reader in."
Darynda Jones
"Give and receive with gratitude. Do the former, without expectation of, the latter."
Jaeda DeWalt
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people."
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