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every pirate and privateer has lurking within him the soul of an accountant. Though some would say 'tis the other way round.
~ Neal Stephenson
To shave off the beard (or any body hair) is to symbolically annihilate the (essentially specious) boundary separating Self from Other
~ Neal Stephenson
Actually, multiple playthroughs and deleting save files are things that other games have done, so I don't see myself as a forerunner of those elements in the game.
~ Yoko Taro
In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.
~ Johnny Flynn
luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
~ Umberto Eco
La dimensión ética empieza cuando entra en escena el otro. Toda ley, moral o jurídica, regula siempre relaciones interpersonales, incluidas las relaciones con ese Otro que la ley la impone.
~ Umberto Eco
Me, sweep him off his feet? I know. The laws of the jungle and romance novels would have it the other way around, but I'm not going to wait one more second for that.
~ Laini Taylor
Tomorrow they will start the apocalypse. Tonight, they let themselves look at each other, just for a little while.
~ Laini Taylor
And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.'... 'And the wise, who made this world?' The swan lowered its black neck sadly. 'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers.
~ Catherine Fisher
Dreamers don't make good workers. So you teach them that no matter how miserable, what they've got is the best, and the Other is terror and lies. Well, to be bold, fuck that.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.
~ Gilles Deleuze
If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.
~ Gilles Deleuze
Alienation is when your country is at war, and you want the other side to win.
~ Gloria Steinem
To encounter oneself is to encounter the other: and this is love. If I know that my soul trembles, I know that yours does, too: and if I can respect this, both of us can live. Neither of us, truly, can live without the other: a statement which would not sound so banal if one were not so endlessly compelled to repeat it, and act on that belief.
~ James Baldwin
Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
~ James Baldwin
The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
~ Berry Gordy
I have to admit, between the Seahawks games and the Blazer games and playoffs games, we're talking about close to 100 games a year, so I don't really follow other sports a lot.
~ Paul Allen
Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.
~ Ansel Adams
The youthful disaffiliation of our time strikes beyond ideology to the level of consciousness, seeking to transform our deepest sense of the self, the other, and the environment.
~ Theodore Roszak
which means "other side," the other part of the city. The view from there wasn't as good as from the fort, but curious people were there, too, just looking. Strangely
~ Theodore Taylor
Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.
~ Frans de Waal
We're in favor of independence as long as it's in other people's empires, not in our own.)
~ Noam Chomsky
Madmen claimed God in their vicious righteousness, stirring fear and hate to build their own armies to purge what was "other.
~ Nora Roberts