Bathsua Makin Quotes
... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.
Bathsua Makin
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
Laura Linney
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Et sane arduum debet esse, quod adeo raro reperitur. Qui enim posset fieri, si salus in promptu esset et sine magno labore reperiri posset, ut ab omnibus fere negligeretur? Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia, quam rara sunt.
Baruch Spinoza
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A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.
Samuel Johnson
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To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
P. J. O'Rourke
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'Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy'
Octavio Paz
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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
Camille Paglia
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I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. Most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.
Chuck Klosterman
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Even a single hair casts its shadow.
Publilius Syrus
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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
Boyd K. Packer
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Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
David M. Shoup
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... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.
Bathsua Makin
