"To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden."
James Herbert
"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."
C.S. Lewis
"Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed."
Jodi Picoult
"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."
Sigmund Freud
"Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure."
Andre Bustanoby
"It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality."
Sam Harris
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
Anonymous
"Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite."
Peter Davis
"We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty."
Marina Abramovic
"Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way."
Kevin Hart
"Solitude is the 'think tank' of the soul."
Ted Agon
"Television is for appearing on - not for looking at."
Noël Coward
"While the new Legionnaire man eliminated his enemies in the name of God, with a cross in his hand, the new Communist man eliminated God altogether and stood on His pedestal. They were both equally thirsty for blood."
Teodor Flonta
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
James D. Nicoll
"Did you never wonder why the old books are so full of dragons chasing after maidens? The serpents think the girls are orphans, and long to get them away in a lair so that they may grow up strong and tall."
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