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/ page 471 of 1205 /One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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Organizating is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
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Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend, Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind, With whips and stings
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Dead power is everywhere among us—in the forest, chopping down the songs; at night in the industrial landscape, wasting and stiffening the n...
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The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
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"Try to live as if there were a God"
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I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
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The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.
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The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.
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