You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and...
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Oscar Wilde
But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of...
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Alan W. Watts
I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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Jasper Fforde
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
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Albert Einstein
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
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George R.r. Martin
More Quotes By George S. Patton
Battle is an orgy of disorder.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of...
