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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
> Someone sent me a clipping from a daily newspaper containing a list of ten books to be removed from library shelves because of their pornographic content. On the list was one of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia books. Also on the list was my book _A Wind in the Door_. I […]
A quotation from Douglas Adams
> For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
**Douglas Adams** (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 1, _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ , ch. 33 (1979)
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
> The hour for your departure draws near; if you will but forget all else and pay sole regard to the helmsman of your soul and the divine spark within you — if you will but exchange your fear of having to end your life some day for a fear of failing even to […]
A quotation from Molly Ivins
> There is a batty degree of triumphalism loose in this country right now. We are brushing off world opinion as though it mattered not a whit what other people think of us.
**Molly Ivins** (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
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That's a most good-natured wine. A touch sardonic, perhaps, but not cynical. A most civilized wine, one after my own heart.
— The Doctor, in “Day of the Daleks”
#DoctorWho #quote #quotation
A quotation from Lincoln
> Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will […]
A quotation from Emerson
> A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.
> In every work of genius we recognize our […]
A quotation from Thomas More
> But doubtless Plato was right in foreseeing that unless kings became philosophical themselves, they would never take the advice of real philosophers, drenched as they are and infected with false values from boyhood on.
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> _[Sed bene haud dubie praeuidit Plato […]
Panel 4 from Calvin and Hobbes (1987-11-24)
A quotation from Bill Watterson
> CALVIN: Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion, rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
**Bill Watterson** (b. 1958) American cartoonist […]
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A quotation from Ambrose Pierce
> CONCEIT, _n._ Self-respect in one whom we dislike.
**Ambrose Bierce** (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Conceit,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco _Wasp_ (1881-08-12)
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A quotation from Euripides
> MEDEA: Now let things take their course. What use is life to me?
> I have no land, no home, no refuge from despair.
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> [ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ἴτω: τί μοι ζῆν κέρδος; οὔτε μοι πατρὶς
> οὔτ᾽ οἶκος ἔστιν οὔτ᾽ ἀποστροφὴ κακῶν.]
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist […]
“This is a big village.”
“Yes.”
“What's the name of the tribe here?”
“Cockneys.”
— Leela and the Doctor in London, in “The Talons of Weng-Chiang”
#DoctorWho #quote #quotation
“Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.” — Donald Barthelme, "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby,," The Newyorker (01973-05-18)
#BOTD #DonaldBarthelme #QOTD #Quotation #Quote #Life #Death
A quotation from Jean Kerr
> An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.
**Jean Kerr** (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Essay (1957), “One Half of Two on the Aisle,” […]
Dancing is a good example of a contact sport.
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A quotation from Alexander Smith
> Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on […]
We are gathered here today, in the sight of the great video, to ask forgiveness...
— A priest, in “Vengeance on Varos”
#DoctorWho #quote #quotation
"Quotations in my works are like robbers by the roadside who make an armed attack and relieve an idler of his convictions."
— #WalterBenjamin (Schriften I, 571). Quoted in Hannah #Arendt, Introduction to #WalterBenjamin, Illuminations (1968), Section 3 "The Pearl Diver".
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“Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.” — Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
#TomRobbins #Quotation #Quote #QOTD #Pedantry
A quotation from Proust
> In reality, every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader’s recognition in himself of […]
"A purposeful capture is a lesson in patience, not mere chance of countless clicks."- andrew
In sync. Pavilion KL, #Malaysia
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“Ace, I think it's time for plan B...”
“We run?”
“Yes! RUN!”
— The Doctor and Ace, in “Battlefield”
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“We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.” — Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind
#EricHoffer #Quotation #Quote #QOTD #InGroup #Tribalism
“Would you let a small band of semi-savages stand in the way of progress?”
“Well, progress is a very flexible word. It can mean just about anything you want it to mean.”
— Fenner and the Doctor, in “The Power of Kroll”
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
> Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of […]
A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
> You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
**Adlai Stevenson** (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-08-28), “Faith in Liberalism,” State Committee of the Liberal Party, New York City
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"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous....
"With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck."
Thomas Jefferson, 1822
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
> Books were the proper remedy: books of vivid human import, forcing upon their minds the issues, pleasures, busyness, importance and immediacy of that life in which they stand; books of smiling or heroic temper, to excite or to console; books of a large […]
“Pitiful. Can this world do no better than *you* as its champion?”
“Probably. I just do the best I can.”
— The Destroyer and the Brigadier, in “Battlefield”
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A quotation from Kerry Greenwood
> Enough of this … I am not cut out to be a guide to youth. I think youth can get itself into enough trouble without my help, don’t you, Youth?
**Kerry Greenwood** (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyer
Phryne Fisher No. 13, _The Castlemaine Murders_ , ch. 4 […]
