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 A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

 A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

 A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
  Charles de Lint

 A person with a hundred interests is twice as alive as one with only fifty and four times as alive as the man who has only twenty-five
  Norman Vincent Peale

 A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

 All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
  Harvey Cox

 All the disconnected people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do

 As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
  Dick Cavett

 Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

 Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.
  Chris Rock

 Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
  Barbara Kingsolver

 Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
  Barbara Kingsolver

 Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
  Barbara Kingsolver

 I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
  Ambrose Bierce


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