"Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do."
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"I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues."
"Take some cues from some Q’s. Quality and quantity lead to queues."
"You can't just make me different and then leave"
"Poetry and Ostrich Feathers A poet should leave his poem covered with a faint film of fairy dust,inviting the reader to bring his faint heartand an ostrich feather duster to the reading."
"I wrote you a love letter, and I sent it snail mail. Love is forever, and that’s about how long it’ll take to get to you."
"My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable."
"Find an opportunity to serve and success will be yours."
"Some people are oil and water."
"This is the setting out.The leaving of everything behind.Leaving the social milieu. The preconceptions.The definitions. The language. The narrowed field of vision. The expectations.No longer expecting relationships, memories, words, or letters to mean what they used to mean. To be, in a word: Open."
"Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people."
"We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the skies so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment."
"If I dream under a moonlit night, should it vanish with the brightness of the morning sun?"
"Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!"
"Receiving is good but giving is much better. Nevertheless, sharing is the best."
"Consciousness-Driven Evolution circa 60,000 B.C. Random genetic mutation allowed homo sapiens to compete more successfully for food and mating rights. Just listen to girl chatter posted on the cave walls:"Boy, Uggh is hot. He's sentient!""Yeah. He doesn't need a club to get my attention."
"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life."
"For success, choice is more important than action."
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
"Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you."
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