"The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the temptation, yield to it almost unconsciously and become the tools of toadies and flatterers. "Authorities," "disciples," and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies."

-- Thomas Huxley

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“Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.”
“When we radiate the warmth of our love-energy, our compassion-energy on the planet, we shine the qualities of our Source!”
“You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.”
“Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.”
“Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.”

Source : Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.137, Stanford University Press
“I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.”
“I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.”
“I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.”

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