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“Part of me wanted to be like the other guys at school. I wanted to be simple. People who do less thinking tend to be happier... I wanted to be like the other guys because they were having more fun....”
“Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.”
“Dare to Differ”
“The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.”
“Running a race assigns a point to a sport that often feels very pointless. It's an exuberant payoff to months of tedium. It's a way of crafting an end boss for a particularly cumbersome video game....”
“Genuine security an only be obtained by looking inside our oneself.”
“If you take a book into your hands, be it 'God's book, or any other useful good book,' rely on God to make it profitable to you. Do not waste time reading unprofitable books. When you read, do so n...”
“Shes fulfilled her obligation, assuaged her conscience by finding me in the hallway and giving me the chance to freak out, and Ive played my role too, by remaining calm, pretending to be okay, and ...”
“If a stranger saying we are "dependable" activates the reward system, imagine what praise from a boss, a parent, or even an unaccomplished slightly older graduate student will do. Of course, we all...”
“When your authority comes straight from God, shit always turns ugly.”
“Jordan, there isn't a straight woman or gay man alive who wouldn't drop everything to have dinner with you. I've been in this business for all of my life, and I know the difference between people w...”
“You want me to invite him to dinner. I want you to invite him to dinner, she agreed. You know, he said, most gay men dont have mothers who are this enthusiastic about their love lives. Thats probab...”
“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”
“Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.”
“I must have your soul ; must have it mine, and mine for ever.”
“Love is the purest form of a soul at peace.”
“A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb”
“The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.”
“He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.”
“Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.”
