What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
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Chuck Palahniuk
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.
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Steven Wright
God created heaven on earth but man created hell.
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Santosh Kalwar
What is the world? What is it for? It is an art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite picture of the infinite. Assess it like prose, like poetry, like architecture, sculpture, painting, dance, delta blues, opera, tragedy, comedy, romance, epic. Assess...
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N.D. Wilson
The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides....
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Annie Dillard
More Quotes By J. Paul Getty
The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.
There is obviously something wrong with our educational system. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that there might even be something wrong with at least some of our schoolteachers. But heaven help anyone daring to express such heretical views.
In some respects, a society in which the members reach a universal level in which they are anonymous drones by choice is even more frightening than one in which they are forced to be so against their will. When human beings relinquish their individuality and...
In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educated barbarians of ancient Rome. These were barbarians who learned to speak--and often to read and write-- Latin. They acquired Roman habits of dress and deportment. Many of them...
It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.
