Loving and hating someone at the same time can really take it out of you.
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
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“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.”
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“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
― Jesting Pilate
― Jesting Pilate
“It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
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