AARON: Pray to the devils; the gods have given us over.
— Titus Andronicus, IV, ii
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“You have to hang up your travelling shoes and stop wandering sooner or later, don't you?”
“So I've been told. Personally, I just keep on wandering.”
— Morgana and the Doctor, in “The Greatest Show in the Galaxy”
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“I tell people that I've never been hurt by an honest question, and that's true: it's a cruel opinion that hurts, not a question.” — Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw
#BOTD #KateBornstein #Quotation #QOTD #Quote #Cruelty #Opinions #Questions
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If heroes don't exist, it is necessary to invent them; good for public morale.
— Cardinal Borusa, in “The Deadly Assassin”
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CHORUS: But passion lends them power, time means, to meet
Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.
— Romeo and Juliet, II, prologue
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“Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.” — Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
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A quotation from **Adlai Stevenson**
> We must never delude ourselves into thinking that physical power is a substitute for moral power, which is the true sign of national greatness.
**Adlai Stevenson** (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-09-18), “The Atomic Future,” Bushnell […]
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A quotation from **Mark Twain**
> [S]he brought some of those apples. I was obliged to eat them, I was so hungry. It was against my principles, but I find that principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
**Mark Twain** (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story […]
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YORK: Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth,
Where nothing lives but crosses, cares and grief.
— Richard II, II, ii
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A quotation from **Horace**
> Good Homer sometimes nods, which gives me a jerk —
> But sleep may well worm its way into any long work!
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> _[Et idem
> indignor, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
> verum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum.]_
**Horace** (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist […]
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It's more serious than death, Mr Stevenson. He's changing form.
— The Doctor, in “The Seeds of Doom”
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“QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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A quotation from **Teddy Roosevelt**
> Our worst revolutionaries today are those reactionaries who do not see and will not admit that there is any need for change.
**Theodore Roosevelt** (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909) […]
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"Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do."
~ Hercule Poirot
(Agatha Christie, 1935)
#quote #quotes #quotation #psychology #necessity #agathachristie
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A quotation from **Doctor Who**
> JO: I don’t believe it! It’s bigger inside than out!
> THE DOCTOR: Yes. That’s because the TARDIS is dimensionally transcendental.
> JO: What does that mean?
> THE DOCTOR: It means that it’s bigger inside than out.
**Doctor Who** (1963-1989) British science […]
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A quotation from **Eric Hoffer**
> Suffering cleanses only when it is free of resentment. Wholehearted contempt for our tormentors safeguards our soul from the mutilations of bitterness and hatred.
**Eric Hoffer** (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
_Passionate State of […]
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A quotation from **Josh Billings**
> Man iz mi brother, and i konsider that i am nearer related tew him through hiz vices, than i am through hiz virtews.
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> [Man is my brother, and I consider that I am nearer related to him through his vices, than I am through his virtues.]
**Josh Billings** […]
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A quotation from **Ben Franklin**
> Many complain of their Memory, few of their Judgment.
**Benjamin Franklin** (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
_Poor Richard_ (1745 ed.)
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More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/82…
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RUMOUR: Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures
And of so easy and so plain a stop
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon it.
— 2 Henry IV, Induction
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“Would you like to explain that reference, Professor?”
“No.”
— The BBC man and Professor Horner, in “The Daemons”
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“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow — hate's so easy compared.” — Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
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A quotation from **Kit Marlowe**
> BAD ANGEL: He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall.
**Christopher "Kit" Marlowe** (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
_The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus_ , Act 5, sc. 4 (sc. 19), l. 2032 (5.4.2032) (1594; 1616 “B” text) […]
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A quotation from **Madeleine L'Engle**
> We need to dare disturb the universe by not being manipulated or frightened by judgmental groups who assume the right to insist that if we do not agree with them, not only do we not understand but we are wrong. How dull the world would be if we all had […]
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A quotation from **Douglas Adams**
> He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.
**Douglas Adams** (1952-2001) English author, humorist […]
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A quotation from **James Howell**
The more haste, the worse speed.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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SECOND PATRICIAN: I would they were abed!
MENENIUS: I would they were in Tiber!
— Coriolanus, III, i
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“And what is your bureau doing about bonsai?”
“Bonsai, Mr Chase?”
“Mutilation and torture, Mr Dunbar. The hideous, grotesque Japanese practice of miniaturizing shrubs and trees. What is your bureau doing about that?”
— Harrison Chase and Dunbar, in “The Seeds of Doom”
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“He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.” — Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
#BOTD #DouglasAdams #QOTD #Quotation #Quote #Perspective
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A quotation from **Lincoln**
> If all men were just, there would still be _some_ , though not so _much_ , need of government.
**Abraham Lincoln** (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1854-07-01?), fragment on government
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A quotation from **Hannah Arendt**
> The emotions I feel are no more _meant_ to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.
**Hannah Arendt** (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
_Life of the Mind_ , Vol. 1, Part 1, ch. 4 “Body and soul […]
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