J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
It was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts.
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
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I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.
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Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.
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As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.
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Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.
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He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.
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It was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts.
