Xxxviii Quotes & Sayings

You are nothing but a doll. Nothing but a doll
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doll! You care for nothing. You are stuffed with sawdust. You never had a heart. Nothing could ever make you feel. You are a doll! — Frances Hodgson Burnett

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by. — David Brooks

Everything has been something before. — Alexander McCall Smith

I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty. — Tove Lo

The cankered passion of envy is nothing akin to the silly envy of the ass.L'Estrange,Fab.xxxviii. — Samuel Johnson

It's not poop, it's chocolate ... just don't try to eat it because it's full of E. coli. — L. H. Cosway

CHAPTER XXXVIII CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE, AND MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEW — Charles Dickens

Our inability to share the gifts of nature causes much suffering in the world today... We mistakenly believe that a free market should allow people and corporations to profit from nature, yet we've failed to consider the immense cost to life that occurs whenever people are allowed to reap what they haven't sown at the expense of others. While the privatization of capital can lead to production efficiencies that benefit the entire market, the same can't be said for privatization of nature. Whenever the income stream from nature is privatized, human beings take for themselves the gifts that would better be freely shared with everyone. — Martin Adams

The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is better to retreat a yard." This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy. Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil. Thus you destroy your three treasures and become an enemy yourself. When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield. — Laozi

Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch) — David Cronenberg