Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others

The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.

Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding death.

Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.

There can be no centrein infinity.

Different denotes neither bad nor good, but it certainly means not the same.

Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

[Sundance is] giving people a chance - many first-time filmmakers. It carries that weight - if you bring something here, people connect with it and it can launch a career.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.

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