"Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I think you are cruel, Miss Marquess, but please donâ€™t punish me for saying it. I think you know youâ€™re cruel. I think you like being cruel. I think calling you cruel is the same as calling someone else kind. And I donâ€™t want to run errands for someone cruel."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Running Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.”
“I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.”
“Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.”
“The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
“The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.”

Source : "Merging Physical and Digital in Fashion" by Nicola Formichetti, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2011.
“The healing power of medical drugs is the Ur-power of their original essence in conjunction with the power of Ur-vibrations of the human-Divine combination that is composed of body, soul and spirit.”
“O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost”
“If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.”

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