"Let Others Speak [10w] When others speak of your virtues they grow tenfold."
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"Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him"
"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf."
"There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched.We separate."
"We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary."
"Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous"
"A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies."
"The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies."
"I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant)."
"We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor."
"the [coat] rack above his head like a javelin.On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?"Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "If you'd been a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful.""Yes,"said Jace. "Or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats."
"Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you."
"A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on."
"Ode to a Wastepaper Basket I love the way you sit in the corner,gracious like a lover,catching my every crumpled vanity."
"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."
"It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable."
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
"If we can never possess the complete knowledge, then faith in the infinite potential must become an essential if not the necessary component of our path."
"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate."
"There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises"
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