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The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny.

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

Credo Mutwa, the most knowledgeable man i have ever had the honor of knowing.

A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon.

I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?

But I have to warn you that this is the word—'politics'—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.

I have devoted much effort, during the last decade or so, to the systematic encouragement of subversiveness.

And Türing answered another," Rudy said. "Who's that?" "It's me," Alan said. "But Rudy's joking. 'Turing' doesn't really have an umlaut in it." "He's going to have an umlaut in him later tonight," Rudy said, looking at Alan in a way that, in retrospect, years later, Lawrence would understand to have been smoldering.

You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other? The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?

The Fourth Crusade was an epic clusterfuck a comic-opera misadventure a tragic saga with farcical elements.

Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice, grumbled Newton.

Tav started it," Aïda said. "He ate his own leg. Soft cannibalism, he called it. Legs are of no use in space. He blogged it. Then it went viral.