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For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man." To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service." Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo! ↗

— Frank Beddor

#dead #glass #imperial #looking #man

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is. ↗

— Lisa See

#life #life

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception. ↗

— George Eliot

#preception #truth #life

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser. ↗

— Toba Beta

#law #life #preservation #preserve #rule

Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#life

In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerner's access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#communication

I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right. ↗

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#people #so-true #things-that-happen #life

It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #shit #talking #truth #life

When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull. ↗

— Junior Seau

#around #assigned #bull #enjoy #full-time

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#dignity #education #intelligence #respect #education