"Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction."

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Source : C. J. Cherryh (1996). “Invader: Book Two of Foreigner”, p.32, Penguin

C. J. Cherryh

#Average Quotes #People Quotes #Half Quotes

“We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.”
“We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.”
“It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?”
“Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate”

Source : Gordon Willard Allport (1958). “The Nature of Prejudice”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
“It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.”
“The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.”
“There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange - I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel. There are poets who don't have to do that.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.”

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