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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
-- Laurens Van der Post |
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
-- Leo Rosten |
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Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?
-- Leo Tolstoy |
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci |
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Lust is the cause of generation
Appetite is the support of life
Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and
Fraud the preservation of its instruments.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci |
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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.
-- Les Claypool |
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Alice tried another question. "What sort of people live about here?"
"In THAT direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: And in THAT direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad."
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
-- Lewis Carroll |
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Your emotions make you a monster. The question, then, is "Would you rather be a feeling monster or a non-feeling machine?".
-- Lincoln Nielson |
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The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.
-- Lincoln Steffens |
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I was lied to when I was told life was fair, that someone would always be there, people cared about how I felt, I was unhappy with the cards I was dealt. When I was a child, my castle was my home, now I'm walking empty streets, memories and me alone. More's been said in silence than can ever be spoken in words. Secrets shared, and promises kept, and feeling they'll never return.
-- Link 80 |
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To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.
-- Lionel Strachey |
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I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.
-- Loring M. Black, Congressman from New York, |
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In fear of death we all try to beat time, to outrun it with doctors and technology. But the reality of it all is that there is only one place where time has no meaning and the predator has not teeth. The irony is that place is heaven and the only way to get there is to die. We actually fear what we want most, Death.
-- Lou Burr |
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I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.
-- Lou Reed |
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We all live in a multi-colored universe - but what of me who is color blind?
-- Lucas Shinkovich |
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