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RE: Favorite book quotes
February 19, 2017 at 3:01 am
The first two both from Frank Herbert's Dune --
"What senses do we lack that we cannot perceive entire worlds around us?"
"Those who see only what they wish are doomed to rot in the stink of their own perceptions."
... and from Hemingway:
"Isn't it pretty to think so?"
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RE: Favorite book quotes
February 19, 2017 at 12:02 pm
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
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RE: Favorite book quotes
February 19, 2017 at 1:44 pm
Take just about any sentence from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and you have a great quote.
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Favorite book quotes
February 19, 2017 at 6:54 pm
'Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.' - To Kill A Mockingbird
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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Favorite book quotes
February 20, 2017 at 8:46 pm
"You cannot hide from danger. Death floats on the air, creeps through the window, comes with the handshake of a stranger. If we stop living because we fear death, then we have already died." - The Soulforge by Margaret Weis.
