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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

- Iris Murdoch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

- George Orwell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy true fulfillment.

- Anthony (Tony) Robbins Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Why are we so full of restraint Why do we not give in all directions Is it fear of losing ourselves Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

- Henry Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

- Leo F. Buscaglia Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

- James Allen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

- Jean Paul Richter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

- Evelyn Waugh Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

- Larry Wall Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

- Larry Wall Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

- Larry Wall Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

- Jack Vance Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

- Peter Sellers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.

- Robert Sheckley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.

- Robert Shea Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

- Dean Inge Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

- James A. Baldwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

- James A. Baldwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

- Conrad Aiken Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

- Aesop Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Language is wine upon the lips.

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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

- Dean Inge Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Plodding wins the race.

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