"It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing."

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Vernor Vinge

“Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.”
“I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war. I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would.”

Source : "The matter of my whole life" by Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky, Moscow, Politizdat, 1978.
“When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.”
“I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree.”

Source : Mary Taubman, Gwen John (1985). “Gwen John”, Ashgate Publishing
“And lash the vice and follies of the age.”

Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The Dramatic Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre: The wonder. The man bewitch'd Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.79
“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”
“Homeland Security is armed and locked and ready to blow your brains out if you start protesting martial law.”
“Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. The journey may take many lifetimes, but you will complete it. It is impossible not to complete it. It is not a question of if but of when. Every situation you create serves this purpose. Every experience you encounter serves this purpose.”

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