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Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#chapter #close #deliberately #end #get

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#evil #good #government #itself #make

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#always #appealed #based #been #bottles

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#collective #each #idea #influenced #kind

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#be different #call #computer #designed #different

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#democracy #eventually #like #many #may

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#anime #art #art form #features #form

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself. ↗

— Kevin Shelley

#deeply #done #errors #ever #i

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge. ↗

— Blake Shelton

#basically #call #company #deer #down

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. ↗

— George MacDonald

#fear #frightened #how #never #strange