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You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter ... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person. — John Ruskin

Well it seems you have me by the balls both literally and figuratively, don't you now? — K. Bromberg

Listen to me, kitten. Win or lose, you'll always be a princess to me. — Kiera Cass

Time makes us pointless. — Sebastian Faulks

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it. — Edgar Lee Masters

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. — John Clayton

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character. — Wendell Berry

She was. She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe . . . son, I told you that if you hadn't lost your head I'd have made you go read to her. I wanted you to see something about her - I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew." Jem — Harper Lee

The trouble with science geeks, as you call them, is that hey put discovery before anything else. It was a science geek who discovered the atom bomb. He didn't intend to cause mass murder, but he did nonetheless. — Gemma Malley

The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and unimportant factor in human affairs. — Rodney Stark

The only thing we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made. — Hajime Isayama

Because I don't need oxygen. I've already come to all my conclusions. I'm just slowly gliding down. Someday I'll be as light as a feather. — Mark Helprin

I believe that you are really a very good husband but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose. — Oscar Wilde

Writing bores me so. — Oscar Wilde

When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say that I don't know what to make of it, just write it like I tell it, so the reader can make up his own mind. — David Mitchell