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Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts. — Sheri S. Tepper

Love is an affair of credulity. — Ovid

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Topological anomaly? Topological anomaly? Don't you mean witchcraft? Don't you mean the end of civilisation? Don't you mean some kind of spooky thing that we know nothing, absolutely fucking nothing about, to go with everything else we don't know? — Jeff VanderMeer

You can help a thousand ... but you can't carry three on your back! — Jim Rohn

I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today. — Bill Richardson

The library is my cathedral. — Barbara Bretton

An interest in Star Trek and an antisocial lifestyle may not, in fact, be unassailable correlates of talent in computer programming. — Cordelia Fine

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic]. — Gregory Bateson

I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information. — Scott Adams

Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but if one kneels before husband or wife, it is quite permissible! — Swami Vivekananda

If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves. — Mother Teresa

Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore. — Edwin Morgan

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. — Henry Miller

Do you know what truly, honestly separates people who succeed from those who fail? It's simple: People who do the work succeed. People who don't fail. — Sean Platt