Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Quotes
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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.
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Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow’s book buyers for today’s dollars, especially when it’s obvious that the source in question doesn’t have any more dollars to give you.
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Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.
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I feel very well and I’m very happy to be here. It’s an honour for me to represent this club and a dream come true.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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Yet from thy lethal lips and thine alone, Love would I drink, as dew from poison-bloom.
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Roman throats like the Zealots. Instead, if a Roman soldier backhands you with a blow...
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I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.
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Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.
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Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.
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The best design is the simplest one that works.
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
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Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly.
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This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.
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It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.
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All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.
