Jack Vance Quotes
If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened but I feel strong. I have the strength of a woman who has everything to loose.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.
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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.
