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Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Trent I don't want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone's *really* hoping makes it happen. I want you to be like the guy in the rated R movie, you know, the guy you're not sure whether or not you like yet. You're not sure where he's coming from. Okay You're a bad man. You're a bad man. You're a bad man, bad man.
Gabriel Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that Misdirection.
Ginger He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize - he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond. But you know what its all a facade. All his charm and charisma, his wealth, his expensive toys. He is a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He takes what he wants and then disappears. You don't find him - he finds you.
Stan Well you can take the girl outta the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park outta the girl.
Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should Besides, audiences love happy endings.
Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here What was it about Was it her smile Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.
Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.
Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex... Do we need so many
In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.
I thought I loved him, but I really just needed him. There was so much death and when I was in bed with him, I wasn't thinking about death...Look, what I'm trying to say is that we can't know what's in another person's heart, we can't even know what's in our own. Life turns on a dime, and somehow we muddle through.
I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what'
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.
There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones-which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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