"I think eulogies are wasted on the dead. It’s the living who need to hear kind words spoken about them."
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"Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing."
"I grew a garden in her heart. There was plenty of space for flowers, because her heart was completely empty of love."
"Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end."
"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
"Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human."
"I haven't measured it, but I'll bet cat purrs vibrate at a healing frequency. Also, a whispered I love you almost certainly resonates with heart and DNA repair."
"Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world."
"God vs. Satan [10w] Why can't God and Satan get along?They're both detail-oriented."
"I want to see an elephant hunt down a man for the sole purpose of collecting his teeth, while a chorus of typewriters sings songs that praises the bananas for their wisdom, leadership, and their high levels of potassium."
"All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me."
"Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications."
"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."
"No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature."
"Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too."
"If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right."
"Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear."
"Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments."
"When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing."
"This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism."
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