Secrets

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  • Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and particularly in poetry, the elements of success are exceedingly simple, and are admirably set forth in the following lines by the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape, entitled, for some mysterious reason, "John A. Joyce.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
        Pamela Vaull Starr   Best?
  • The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
        James Bryce   Best?
  • Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
        Alexander Pope   Best?
  • In dwelling, live close to the ground.
        Tao Te Ching   Best?
  • Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
        Jacob Braude   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?
  • Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
        Louis Pasteur   Best?
  • The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
        Lucille Ball   Best?
  • No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
        Helen Keller   Best?
  • A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.
        Tim Burton   Best?
  • The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
        Christopher Morley   Best?
  • A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
        Salman Rushdie   Best?
  • Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
        Edward Abbey   Best?
  • When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
        Alexander Graham Bell   Best?
  • The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
        Augustine   Best?
  • You know who I idolized? Mr. Rogers. Is there a market for the next Mr. Rogers? Because I'd love to do that. I'd much rather be quiet and important like him than live large and be some useless celebrity.
        Clay Aiken   Best?
  • Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.
        Robert Englund   Best?
  • In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
        Hunter S. Thompson   Best?
  • I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
        Socrates   Best?
  • Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering to disarm all hostility.
        Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   Best?
  • Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
  • A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
        Kenneth Tynan   Best?
  • He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
        Dr. Isaac Barrow   Best?
  • I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
        Umberto Eco   Best?
  • When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
        Martha Graham   Best?
  • The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
        Thucydides   Best?
  • There is nothing that is personal and private, it is all universal. All that stuff we share but don't admit to, and don't talk about...what is that about?
        Ani Difranco   Best?

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