"The experience youâ€™ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it."

-- A.S.A. Harrison

#Past Quotes #Substance Quotes #May Quotes

“Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.”
“What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ***** for no reasonâ€”instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, itâ€™s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods.”
“Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.”
“Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.”
“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.”
“Do you want to hold it?' she asked, dangling the padded envelope in front of Hale with two fingers. 'No.' 'Do you want to touch it and kiss it and wear it around your neck?' 'Don't be silly,' he told her. 'Everyone knows green isn't my color.”
“For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.”

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