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"There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature, but, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit."
"Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone."
"What a piece of work is a man"
"Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid."
"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."
"When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned."
"What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish."
"I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me."
"I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them."
"I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle."
"The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day."
"hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself."
"The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it"
"We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there."
"You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces?"
"I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star."
"I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context."
"We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain"
"Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them."
"We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not."
