"Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people."

-- Orson Scott Card

#People Quotes #May Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons”
“I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.”
“It was my mistake in the first days of the electoral campaign. I understand the mistake. I don't accept that people who say, "Oh, politicians have to refuse to admit the mistakes." No. I am an, I am a man. I can make some mistakes.”
“Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.”
“In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, ***** mechanicus instead of ***** sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.”
“I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.”
“We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.”
“Things seem to be at a boiling point all the time. In fact, it has been that way my whole life. I find it interesting, and I like the fact that the emotions are in your face all the time. You always know where you stand. None of that "we don't have any racial problems here" attitude that you get, say, up north. All of this is rich fodder for a crime novelist.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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