"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
Robert A. Heinlein
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Thu, June 30th 2011
"This alarming growth of good habits really means a too great emphasis on those virtues which mere custom can ensure, it means too little emphasis on those virtues which custom can never quite ensure, sudden and splendid virtues of inspired pity or of inspired candour."
G.K. Chesterton
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Fri, May 27th 2011
"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
George Bernard Shaw
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Thu, February 10th 2011
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear."
Stephen King
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Sat, February 5th 2011
"In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them."
George Orwell
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Wed, January 12th 2011
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around."
G.K. Chesterton
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Tue, December 28th 2010
"It’s hard to find the good in someone when you’ve already found the best in someone else."
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Sat, December 25th 2010
"What did my brother do today? He stood up and fought for his country. And what did i do? I made a papier mache lobster head."
Emma Thompson as Karen, Love Actually
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Thu, December 16th 2010
"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
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Oscar Wilde
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Mon, September 6th 2010
