“Life isn't about being brave. It's about getting through it even though you're scared,”
― How To Be Dead #1-3
― How To Be Dead #1-3
“So, to answer your question, there may be others that approach you from, let’s say, the competition. A wee bit of a power struggle at the moment for control of the underworld. Nothing to be concerned about.” “Right. Two devils fighting it out for control of Hell.” “Hardly,” he said and chuffed. “Actually, considering where our world is right now… that explains a lot.”
― Hell Inc: The Complete Series, Books 1-9
― Hell Inc: The Complete Series, Books 1-9
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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