"The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking."

-- Samuel R. Delany

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“Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldnt because we should all just get along, really.”
“This one isnâ€™t just any old horse. Thereâ€™s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, thereâ€™s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We donâ€™t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.”
“There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.”
“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
“Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.”
“When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.”
“I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But Louis Armstrong was playing it and singing the song to me. I woke up-it's a borrowed melody no doubt-and wrote it down. If I hear a song and I choose not to put it down, that's me neglecting to accept that song. I think there's a very spiritual and godly-type ting that happens, and it happens to way more people than we know. It's just that very few of us choose to engage it.”

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