"It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises."

-- Stanley Schmidt

#Believe Quotes #Answers Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my friend again. And that was enough for me.”
“Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless creatures, it increases our receptivity to human cruelty and war and steals our humanity, peace and soul. Very little speeds and greases your way to Hell, like animal cruelty.”
“Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.”
“I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.”
“I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.”
“The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.”
“It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation would connect you with it. The result is that people really want to invest in valuable things, and contemporary art has become a very stable material value with great growth potential.”
“You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love. Love.”

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