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I love you, but sometimes I feel like slapping you. — Emil Ostrovski

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. — Douglas Hurd

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear. — Gautama Buddha

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The important thing is that I returned with a great yearning for my people in that small village at the bend of the Nile. For seven years I had longed for them, had dreamed of them, and it was an extraordinary moment when I at last found myself standing amongst them. They rejoiced at having me back and made a great fuss, and it was not long before I felt as though a piece of ice were melting inside of me, as though I were some frozen substance on which the sun had shone - that life warmth of the tribe which I had lost for a time in a land 'whose fishes die of the cold'. — Tayeb Salih

That, ladies and gentlemen, is called denial. Ain't she a bitch? — M. Leighton

I was offered some film roles, and I did not do them. It would have been interesting, but I have no regrets. I am where I am; I accept and embrace the mistakes because they're character-building and they build perspective and talent. — Peter Scolari

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him. — Francis Chan

Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well. — Judith Hanson Lasater

Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people. — Richard M. Nixon

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. — Christopher Hitchens

It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence, rather than their occurrence, which becomes highly improbable. — Ronald Fisher

So my advice is this - don't look for proofs. Don't bother with them at all. They are never sufficient to the question, and they're always a little impertinent, I think, because they claim for God a place within our conceptual grasp. And they will likely sound wrong to you even if you convince someone else with them. — Marilynne Robinson