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Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare. — Christopher Morley

The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you — John Naka

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. — A.A. Milne

Things must be done, life must go on. Life would go on, even if every breath she took hurt, even if her joints ached when she moved. Sorry and loneliness were an insidious evil, for they lived in the mind. One could not take a tonic and see them dissipate. — Kristen Callihan

I love my brother, I love my dad, actually love my mother as well, hope that's ok. And I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make. — Jeb Bush

Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive. — Sara Sheridan

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets. — Nicole Krauss

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. — Robert M. Pirsig

If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing. — Stephen Jay Gould

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein. — Lynne Barasch

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights. — H. Rider Haggard

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it. — Frans De Waal

After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.' — Anthony Marra

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer. — Esther Dyson

We're all doctors trading sadness for numbness
grass looks much greener but it's green-painted cement
the mayor's machines are there cleaning the pavement
you can't make dirt clean so we'll just lemon-scent it — Modest Mouse