If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.
It bothers me that I won’t live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
I’m not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It’s not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
Maybe I’m too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don’t look like anybody’s ideal.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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