Daniel Handler Quotes
Miracles are like meatballs because nobody knows what they are made of, where they came from or how often they should appear.
Daniel Handler
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Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
Yitzhak Rabin
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Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong, for example, in regard to the treatment of animals; and law, for her, is clearly not just the law of the land but, in some far deeper sense, a divine or cosmic law, whose violation can have disastrous effects-seeming breakdowns in the course of nature itself.
Oliver Sacks
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The sky is now indelible ink,The branches reft asunder;But you and I we do not shrink;We love the lovely thunder.
Ogden Nash
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
E. O. Wilson
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La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.
Antonio Gramsci
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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was 'the scourge of God.'
Edward Everett
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For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
Jilly Cooper
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
Demosthenes
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Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
Blaise Pascal
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At an early age I found myself facing the incomprehensible, the unthinkable, death. Ever since, I have known nothing on this earth can be shared because we own nothing. There is a word inside us stronger than all others - and more personal. A word of solitude and certainty, so buried in its night that it is barely audible to itself. A word of refusal, but also of absolute commitment, forging its bonds of silence in the emfathomable silence of the bond.
This word cannot be shared. Only sacrificed.
Edmond Jabes
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Miracles are like meatballs because nobody knows what they are made of, where they came from or how often they should appear.
Daniel Handler
