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• Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

  Daniel Handler

  I Hate You, Humor, Fate

  "The Slippery Slope". Book by Daniel Handler, 2003.

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• They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Peace, Military, War

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Epic, People, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

  Aristotle

  Math, Circles

  Aristotle, (2014). “The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition”, p.2254, Princeton University Press

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• The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'

  Regina Spektor

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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  It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Wisdom, Appreciation

  John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

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• But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

  Libba Bray

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mistake

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• A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope -and it's a strange thought - is if they put the button to launch the nuclear war behind a man's heart. The President, then, with a rusty knife, would have to cut out the man's heart, kill the man, to get to the button.

  Robin Williams

  War, Heart, Cutting

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• One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Jesus, Earth, Chance

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• When the end comes, I hope it’s as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors that we’ve never seen before.

  Joey Comeau

  Color, Sky, Tears

  "Lockpick Pornography". Book by Joey Comeau, 2005.

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• We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.

  Roland Joffe

  Selfish, Animal, Years

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• How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.

  John Updike

  Hurt, Air, Creation

  John Updike (2003). “Rabbit, run ; Rabbit redux”

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• It's a strange thought that sometimes God trusts us more than we trust Him. God trusts you - can you trust Him?

  Beth Moore

  Trust In God, Sometimes

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• There is nothing strange, creepy, or inappropriate about John Travolta .

  Scarlett Johansson

  Creepy, Inappropriate

  "Scarlett Johansson: John Travolta is not 'creepy,' Oscars kiss was 'totally welcome'", www.foxnews.com. February 27, 2015.

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• Keep my word' is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means 'Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, 'Hold your words back.' Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead.

  Peter Gould

  Mean, Expression, Firsts

  Peter Gould (2008). “Write Naked”, p.149, Macmillan

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• Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Music, Secret, Emotion

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• Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

  Gary L. Francione

  Dog, Pain, Fighting

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• Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Inspiring, Weed

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• A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

  Thomas Traherne

  Religion, Gardening, World

  The Salutation (published 1903).

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• I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.

  Dan Chaon

  Media, Stuff, Anecdotes

  "Staying Awake with Dan Chaon". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

  J. G. Holland

  Music, Song, Sea

  "Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects".

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• Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Karma, Self, Law

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• O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Winter, Hair

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288

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• Do not reject anything because it is new or strange, and do not sneer nor jeer at what comes from the Lord, for if we do, we endanger our salvation.

  Brigham Young

  Lord, Salvation, Rejects

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.267

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• How strange it is to be anything at all.

  Jeff Mangum

  "Song: 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'". 1997.

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