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| Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Poetry the best words in the best order. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Friendship is like a sheltering tree. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| What comes from the heart goes to the heart. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it. |
Luke Salisbury |
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| The Terminator Come with me if you want to live. |
Terminator 2 Judgment Day |
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| John Connor No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say affirmative, or some shit like that. You say no problemo. And if someone comes on to you with an attitude you say eat me. And if you want to shine them on it's hasta la vista, baby. |
Terminator 2 Judgment Day |
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| John Connor You just can't go around killing people. The Terminator Why John Connor What do you mean why 'Cause you can't. The Terminator Why John Connor Because you just can't, OK Trust me on this. |
Terminator 2 Judgment Day |
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| Sarah Connor How are you supposed to know Men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something to create a life to feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death... |
Terminator 2 Judgment Day |
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| The Terminator I'll be back |
Terminator 2 Judgment Day |
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| The Terminator Hasta la vista, baby. |
Terminator 2 Judgment Day |
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| Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. |
Frank Herbert |
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| Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. |
Frank Herbert |
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| I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. |
Frank Herbert |
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| If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. |
Frank Herbert |
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| The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. |
Frank Herbert |
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| Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. |
Frank Herbert |
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| The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. |
Frank Herbert |
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| Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. |
Frank Herbert |
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| What do you despise By this are you truly known. |
Frank Herbert |
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| The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. |
Jack Anderson |
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| The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. |
Harold Taylor |
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| A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind. |
Harold Taylor |
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| Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision. |
Harold Taylor |
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| The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both. |
James Dale Davidson |
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| I hope I never get so old I get religious. |
Ingmar Bergman |
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| The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster. |
Adam Smith |
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| People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. |
Adam Smith |
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| On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975) |
Adam Smith |
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| To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. |
Abraham Maslow |
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| Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear. |
Abraham Maslow |
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| If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. |
Abraham Maslow |
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| A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. |
Abraham Maslow |
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| We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. |
Abraham Maslow |
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| Pat Healy Really, it's only a side thing for my true passion. Mary And what's that Pat Healy I work with retards. Mary Isn't that a little politically incorrect Pat Healy Yeah, maybe, but hell, no one's gonna tell me who I can and can't work with. |
There's Something About Mary |
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| Mary I want a guy who can play 36 holes of golf, and still have enough energy to take Warren and me to a baseball game, and eat sausages, and beer, not lite beer, but beer. That's my ad, print it up. |
There's Something About Mary |
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| Hitchhiker No No, no, not 6 I said 7. Nobody's comin' up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel. Ted That -- good point. Hitchhiker 7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 doors. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office. Ted Why Hitchhiker 'Cause you're fired |
There's Something About Mary |
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| Ted What about Brett Fav... ruh |
There's Something About Mary |
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| Warren Franks and Beans Franks and Beans |
There's Something About Mary |
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| Pat Healy Those goofy bastards are about the best thing I've got going. |
There's Something About Mary |
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| Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. |
Cheers |
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| As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. |
Hippocrates |
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| Walking is man's best medicine. |
Hippocrates |
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| There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. |
Hippocrates |
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| Many admire, few know. |
Hippocrates |
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| Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity. |
Hippocrates |
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| Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. |
Hippocrates |
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| Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. |
Hippocrates |
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| Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy. |
Hippocrates |
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| A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. |
Hippocrates |
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| The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. |
Hendrik Willem Van Loon |
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| When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes |
Christian Cardell Corbet |
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| Why dont you write books people can read |
Nora Joyce, to her husband James |
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| I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important like a league game or something. |
Dick Butkus |
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| Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces. |
Joseph T. Chew |
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| But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers. |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again. |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| hy doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them. |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. |
D. H. Lawrence |
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| Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| A room without books is like a body without a soul. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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| To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. |
G. K. Chesterton |
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