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• I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.

  M. C. Escher

  Funny, Dream, Clever

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• Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn't right and things like that-but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Mean, Sky

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• Society asks of most men more than sheer intellect ability-it demands also moral hardiness, self-discipline, a competitive spirit and other qualities that in more old-fashioned terms we might simply call character.

  Julius Adams Stratton

  Character, Men, Self

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• Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Leadership, Book

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.148

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• Yes, I will spend the livelong day
  With Nature in this month of May;
  And sit beneath the trees, and share
  My bread with birds whose homes are there;
  While cows lie down to eat, and sheep
  Stand to their necks in grass so deep;
  While birds do sing with all their might,
  As though they felt the earth in flight.

  W. H. Davies

  Lying, Home, Sheep

  William Henry Davies, “In May”

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• 'Established' is a good word, much used in garden books,
  'the plant, when established' ...
  Oh, become established quickly, quickly, garden!
  For I am fugitive, I am very fugitive -
  Those that come after me will gather these roses,
  And watch, as I do now, the white wisteria
  Burst, in the sunshine, from its pale green sheath.
  Planned. Planted. Established. Then neglected,
  Till at last the loiterer by the gate will wonder
  At the old, old cottage, the old wooden cottage,
  And say, 'One might build here, the view is glorious;
  This must have been a pretty garden once.

  Ursula Bethell

  Book, Sunshine, Garden

  Ursula Bethell, Vincent O'Sullivan (1997). “Collected Poems”, p.8, Victoria University Press

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• For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Prayer, Our World

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• The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.

  Stephen S. Roach

  Economic, Pendulums, Wells

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• A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Vegetables, Connections, Gutters

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• I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Birth Rate, Humanity

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• There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive

  Roy Jenkins

  Party, Ideas, Unattractive

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• Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

  Linus Pauling

  College, Engineering, Oregon

  Linus Pauling, Barbara Marinacci (1995). “Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The bottom line for housing is that the concerns we used to hear about the possibility of a devastating collapse—one that might be big enough to cause a recession in the U.S. economy—while not fully allayed have diminished. Moreover, while the future for housing activity remains uncertain, I think there is a reasonable chance that housing is in the process of stabilizing, which would mean that it would put a considerably smaller drag on the economy going forward.

  Janet Yellen

  Mean, Thinking, Lines

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• All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Believe, Fighting, Simple

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• Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that.

  Bill Hicks

  Add, Comedy, Shows

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• Would you let the aliens land, please? They might be here to pick me up.

  Bill Hicks

  Land, Pick Me Up, Aliens

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• I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.

  Steve Blake

  Christian, Rap, Next Day

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• There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Thinking, Perspective, World

  John Archibald Wheeler (2010). “Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics”, p.153, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  World, Chance, Hell

  "Play to Live: Lectures of Alan Watts". Book edited by Mark Watts, December 1, 1982.

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• No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen.

  John Dalton

  Agency, Matter, Hydrogen

  John Dalton (1808). “A New System of Chemical Philosophy...”, p.212

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• The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Letting Go, Refuge

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• Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

  Gore Vidal

  Animal, House, Way

  "How guest Hans Christian Andersen destroyed his friendship with Dickens" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2017.

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• This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Book, Hero

  Preface (written 1918)

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• Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Kids, People, Giving

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• It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

  Keri Hulme

  Hurt, Goes On, Possibility

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.311, LSU Press

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