"It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that it was perfectly acceptable to teach kits to accept food from their hands as a matter of course, rather than teaching them the importance of hunting skill and self-reliance."
Jim Butcher
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer."
Jacob Bronowski
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
Mark Twain
"Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona."
T.F. Hodge
"If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything."
George Head
"Saying of the ProphetHelping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Muslim or not."
Idries Shah
"Paul Rudd has a very specific brand of humor."
Michael Pena
"I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit."
Kazimir Malevich
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute."
Tom Schulman
"But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness."
Marc Morris
"But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!"
Hope Mirrlees
"A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds."
Benjamin Franklin
"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will."
La Rochefoucauld
"Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.[Carnap’s famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]."
Rudolf Carnap
"The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked."
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