"The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest."

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Annie Dillard

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“It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.”
“I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found "against the evidence," ... the English common law rests upon a bargain between the Law and the people: The jury box is where the people come into the court: The judge watches them and the people watch back. A jury is the place where the bargain is struck. The jury attends in judgment, not only upon the accused, but also upon the justice and the humanity of the Law.”
“When we deconstruct how radical evil occurs we realize that it is anything but spontaneous combustion. You need pyromaniacs.”
“I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.”
“Take the gun. Leave the cannoli.”
“Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.”
“It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.”

Source : "Some Say Stalin's Daughter Grew Unhappy In The West" by Robert D. Mcfadden, www.nytimes.com. November 3, 1984.

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