Steven Erikson Quotes
Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.
Steven Erikson
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
Karl Shapiro
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Once again, we've seen an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians. This is an attack not just on Paris, it's an attack not just on the people of France, but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share.
Barack Obama
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Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
A. A. Milne
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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Edith Sitwell
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Being impotent because they have never dared to assert themselves, they continually play the blame game. They are innocent and powerless and, therefore, others are always to blame when things go wrong. … They have yet to bite the apple of consciousness.
Sam Keen
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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
Ayn Rand
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You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
Aldous Huxley
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Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.
Leonardo da Vinci
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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller
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Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo Coelho
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In about 1975-76, I lived with a woman in a little hut with some fruit trees, and I had some of the most extraordinary, happy times of my life. Apart from the horrendous Queensland police, who were corrupt and venal, it really was like living in paradise.
Peter Carey
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Jean Paul
