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Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who’s a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney’s a ferocious gargoyle.

Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.

I'm just a movie fan. I used to go to the movies just to watch movies.

Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I dont Twitter or anything.

People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'

Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.

I use the Internet for what it's for: to learn.

Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.

Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is my" about your child, without taking into account that you're dealing with a real person with his/her own personality, rights, and autonomy, even when very young.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.