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"No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc."
"God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends."
"He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted."
"Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them."
"He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances."
"The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual."
"The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not."
"Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind."
"[N]or should you move so fast! The works of God do not proceed in that way; they come about of themselves, and those He does not create soon perish."
"If you no longer have any income, you will not be neglected-you will not starve to death. . . . We panic at first, but God does not always allow the evil that is feared to happen."
"How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind."
"Not all coincidence has to be loaded with meaning. Sometimes, things simply recur because that's how it is in life, that's how the mood gets in. It's good to subtly overdo it too, as Nabokov does, as Sebald does. It's a good way to intensify that region of localized weather that we call a novel."
"Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!"
"The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes."
"Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick."
"All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle."
"All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my favour; but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser."
"Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?"
"There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making."
"America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building."
