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  • [The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'
        Bruce Baum   Best?
  • I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.
        David Fisher   Best?
  • I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.
        John Kerry   Best?
  • God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
        Bill Watterson   Best?
  • I like it [The Bible] as a book. Just like I like "The Cat In The Hat
        Marilyn Manson   Best?
  • Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
        Chuck Palahniuk   Best?
  • Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
        Blaise Pascal   Best?
  • Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult... Many people are often wrong... Don't bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.
        Janeane Garofalo   Best?
  • Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
        Anne Michaels   Best?
  • Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
        Jean Baptiste Rousseau   Best?
  • We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
        Buddha   Best?
  • Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
        Alain de Lille   Best?
  • One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • While hunting in Africa, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How an elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
        Langston Hughes   Best?
  • The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
        James Bryce   Best?
  • The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
        Hans Christian Andersen   Best?
  • I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
  • Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
        Charles W. Eliot   Best?
  • When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
  • Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
        James Thurber   Best?
  • The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  • The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul.
        Paxton Hood   Best?
  • Is not a church a living thing? It is concieved in union, when a father drops a seed into a ready womb. It comes forth in pain and blood, and they smile who hear it's first cries. Is not a church like a child, for it grows and makes errors and learns? Is not a church like a young person, zealous and vigorous to improve the world but apt to blunder into violence? Is not a church like a mother who should love her children but not smother them? Is not a church like a father who defends and disciplines his family without harm to them or others? Is not a church like anyone of us, who may grow in wisdom and compassion or sink into lazy and meaningless age? Wherefore, judge faiths as you judge persons. If they are greedy for gold, spurn them. If they lie, deny them. If they threaten, defy them. If they slay or harm or persecute, seek other counsel, for a false guide is worse than ignorance. And if they repent, forgive them.
        Dave Duncan   Best?
  • "I never new Great Expectations was about a boy coming into wealth from a secret source. I read the first page and was to frightened to continue."
        xxBrokenByLovexx   Best?
  • "I have found that many books I like have given me morals. I was always one to follow on with intellegence from wise authors, maybe that is why the book appeals to me. Even Harry Potter teaches us the importance of working together as a team and to not let your enemies consume your life."
        xxBrokenByLovexx   Best?
  • Someday they're gonna write a blues song just for fighters. It'll be for slow guitar, soft trumpet, and a bell.
        Sonny Liston   Best?
  • I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
        Arthur C. Clarke   Best?

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