Sarah Palin  - Quotes

 And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain. 

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Sarah Palin  - Quotes

 Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not [...]. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. 

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Erica Jong  - Quotes

 The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game . The man is not  

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Neil Gaiman  - Quotes

 Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see. 

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Gary Snyder  - Quotes

 There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea. 

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William Blake  - Quotes

 The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.



For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt.
 

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Walt Whitman  - Quotes

 Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.

You must travel it by yourself.

It is not far. It is within reach.

Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.

Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.
 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses 

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W. Somerset Maugham  - Quotes

 Some of us look for the way in opium and some in God, some of us in whisky and some of us in love. It is all the same way and it leads nowhither. 

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn  - Quotes

 Without atmosphere a painting is nothing. 

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Henry David Thoreau  - Quotes

 It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. 

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Mahatma Gandhi  - Quotes

 I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage. My hesitancy in speech, which was once an annoyance, is now a pleasure. Its greatest benefit has been that it has taught me the economy of words. I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. And I can now give myself the certificate that a thoughtless word hardly ever escapes my tongue or pen. I do not recollect ever having had to regret anything in my speech or writing. I have thus been spared many a mishap and waste of time. Experience has taught my that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man, and silence is necessary in order to surmount it. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word. We find so many people impatient to talk. There is no chairman of a meeting who is not pestered with notes for permission to speak. And whenever the permission is given the speaker generally exceeds the time-limit, asks for more time, and keeps on talking without permission. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth. 

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Edwin Markham  - Quotes

 He drew a circle that shut me out Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in. 

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Agatha Christie  - Quotes

 One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer. 

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Dr. Seuss  - Quotes

 It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air. 

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Jeff Thomas  - Quotes

 There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye. 

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James Joyce  - Quotes

 There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. 

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Ricky Ponting  - Quotes

 I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that 

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Geoff Dyer  - Quotes

 A restaurant on the moon could not have had less atmosphere. 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 Nothing can be inside an edgeless universe. 

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Bhagavad Gita  - Quotes

 For certain is death for the born

And certain is birth for the dead;

Therefore over the inevitable

Thou shouldst not grieve.

 

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Neil Gaiman  - Quotes

 The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man. He had long since decided that the world, Above or Below, was a place that wished to be deceived, and, to this end, he had named himself from a lie in a fairy tale, and created himself--his clothes, his manner, his carriage--as a grand joke.

There was a dull pain in his wrists and his feet, and he was finding it harder and harder to breathe. There was nothing more to be gained by feigning unconsciousness, and he raised his head, as best he could, and spat a gob of scarlet blood into Mr. Vandemar's face.

It was a brave thing to do, he thought. And a stupid one. Perhaps they would have let him die quietly, if he had not done that. Now, he had no doubt, they would hurt him more.

And perhaps his death would come the quicker for it.
 

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William Blake  - Quotes

 The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. 

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Meister Eckhart  - Quotes

 I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will! 

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Rick Strassman  - Quotes

 As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, devouring the feelings of love and surrender. They were interested in emotion. As I was holding on to my last thought - that God is love - they asked,  

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