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The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anyth...

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The...

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and...

All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see....

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown b...

Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other s...

that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

For a split second longer she stood motionless. Then, somehow, she had caught at the front of his sh...

Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows ...

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my...

now look, she said, stretched out on the bed, I don’t want anything personal, let’s just do it, I do...

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

Mark my words—you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life’s stre...

I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the...

They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them...

Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand—when I turned over its leaves, and sought ...

Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her t...

The Democrats, fearful of his grassroots campaign, blamed him for the election of George W. Bush, an...

I believe that the truth is the only force that will set us free. I have hope, not in the tangible o...

The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populis...

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society ...

It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn’t mat...

Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.

I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Towa...

I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance.

I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is t...

But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are ...

It is an emotional and an enchanted place. If the study of the conscious mind highlights the importa...

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Wh...

I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn’...

Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at ...

They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast o...

Enough," he said; "the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough." "T...

Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculat...

Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times...

Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and poli...

To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according ...

It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Bo...

Here’s another example of the difference in our worldviews. A family in my sister’s neighborhood was...

But whenever I see it happen, I always want to say the same thing. Good luck. Because you still have...

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of yo...

We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and re...

The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that th...

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts...

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus ...

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions....

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition t...

The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where t...

had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientis...

That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it s...

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

There’s always a bear,

No man should live longer than his teeth.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes h...

They’re both bungholes who think they’re too noble to shit,

Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit.

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothe...

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

That Crawford Tilinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things...

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll h...

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart an...

I never once thought I wanted to be a soldier. I wanted to be a teacher. As soon as I left college, ...

The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird,

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memori...

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade him...

Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the...

Becoming drunk is a journey that generally elates him in the early stages—he's good company, expansi...

It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineff...

They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them ...

These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being supe...

although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, ...

For Leopardi, unhappy hedonist that he was, what is unknown is always more attractive than what is k...

In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of ...

The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is de...

But it is not your own Shire,’ said Gildor. ‘Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will ...

I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big Peo...

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altoget...

Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that rea...

Hobbits!’ he thought. ‘Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seld...

Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hil...

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any...

They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town,

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without osten...

It will not suffer if it doesn’t get what it wants.

enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

about: Don’t post anonymously unless you really might be in danger.

that you will become entrapped in someone else’s recent careless thoughts.

Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Morocca...

If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will hap...

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headach...