"actually, adv. Perhaps; possibly."

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Ambrose Bierce

“The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.”
“One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasnâ€™t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy”
“Whenever I hear the word "share" I would reach for a gun if I had one. "Share" is frequently followed by the word "feelings", and I have enough of my own thank you; please do us both a favor and repress yours.”
“I can heal the scars on your body, but I canâ€™t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them”

Source : Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.285, Penguin
“The artist must say it without saying it.”
“The more I know of astronomy, the more I believe in God.”
“Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.”
“There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb...suggests one day...for every kilometer run in anger.”

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