"Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results."
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"In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance."
"Fear is the Best Test Will the fear of going blind make youa voracious reader, a world traveleror paralyze you with a thousand other fears?"
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
"Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope."
"Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy."
"You are allowed to think whatever you want at Emory, so long as it is approved by administrators. They are watching."
"Great earrings would be little speakers, so she can hear better. Or maybe she just wasn’t listening all those times I told her I loved her."
"The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the troublewith women, too."["Existence"(1975)]"
"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."
"Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts."
"I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion."
"I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up."
"Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter."
"Cottage cheese, broken down into its simplest form, is milk that has been curdled to mimic the cellulite its consumption is meant to banish."
"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."
"I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good."
"God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice."
"I want to be in the Guinness Book of World Record’s for something ridiculous like juggling poison-tipped porcupines, playing the piano blindfolded while tightrope walking in tights, or throwing a rubber ball in a circular rim adorned with a dangling white nylon net."
"Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light."
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