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“As long as were comparing analogies, Jack added, how about this one? A person being chased by a bear doesnt have to be able to run faster than the bear. He only has to be faster than his slowest co...”
“...and - holy shit was this song bad. It was like the singer was stabbing my ear with a dagger made of dried turds.”
“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.”
“If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I have thus found remote analogies and relations which others have not considered! Oth...”
“Life is like sex. Its not always good, but its always worth trying.”
“Who doesn't enjoy a little gardening? As we plant the seeds and remove the weeds we reap a wonderful harvest of blessings. What are the weeds? Anyone or anything that sucks the nutrients from the s...”
“Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motiv...”
“He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern proprietyand had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked the latter, like leaves covering a snare. You didn't ...”
“Now I'm not saying the act of going to church fixes everything. Just as simply looking at a restaurant menu won't give you nourishment. We've got to engage with what's offered if it's going to do u...”
“Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.”
“Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.”
“As long as we’re comparing analogies,” Jack added, “how about this one? A person being chased by a bear doesn’t have to be able to run faster than the bear. He only has to be faster than his slowes...”
“Life is like sex. It’s not always good, but its always worth trying.”
“He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety—and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked the latter, like leaves covering a snare. You didn't...”