"Evil forges a tornado.But goodness battles in a straight line."
Caris Roane
"The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called 'spannungsbogen' -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing."
Frank Herbert
"The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge."
Thomas C. Foster
"One must not hope to be more than one can be."
Nicolas de Chamfort
"It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere."
Idries Shah
"Are you in the habit of taking tea with anyone who approaches you in a foreign port?” He went on and snorted carelessly. “No wonder you were abducted so easily."
V.S. Carnes
"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
Carl Bernstein
"Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with."
Milan Kundera
"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."
Carl Sandburg
"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."
Henry David Thoreau
"And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap."
Chuck Palahniuk
"The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul."
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
"The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair."
Jose Bergamin
"I truly believed that a man should not be seen to be out front on feminism. That would be just like a man to try to take over the women's movement. We'd taken over everything else in history, in society, in the world, why not feminism, too? No, I don't think so."
Terry Fallis
"TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
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