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I'm still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.
- Malala Yousafzai
Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
- Cormac McCarthy
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
- Jimmy Carter
I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don't eat. And I like to eat.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The doctors told me' -- her voice sang on a confidential note-- 'that if any man alive had done the consistent drinking that I have, he would have been physically shattered, my dead, and in his grave--long in his grave.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
- Ernest Hemingway
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
- Viktor E. Frankl
But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
- William Booth
Think of it: zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity.
- Robert Wright
from natural selection's point of view, feelings would make great labels for thoughts, labels that say things like "high priority," "medium priority," "low priority.
- Robert Wright