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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blind #craving #created #creating #driving

In a way, I was spoon-fed, if you will, a career. It was fully manufactured by a studio that believed that they could put me on their posters and turn me into their bottle of Coca-Cola, their product. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#bottle #career #coca-cola #could #fully

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#consciences #doing #even #i #i think

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#axioms #cannot #definition #finally #given

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#conceiving #either #experience #fact #genuine

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you. ↗

— John Lennon

#cab #cab driver #driver #everyone #handshake

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#fame #i #posthumous #sits #those

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#gradual #hell #hell is #milestones #road

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#anything #blue #came #censors #expecting

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#apostle #book #hardly #into #likely