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painless thoughts...and painful thoughts...there are two methods by which a person can acquire wisdom, and he proposes that the painful variety is the far superior

we shouldn't be surprised if this kind of stoicism is of no interest whatsoever to the news, for it has sound commercial incentives for overemphasizing our vulnerability.

Art compensates us for certain inborn weaknesses, in this case of the mind rather than the body, weaknesses that we can refer to as psychological frailties

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation.

Unlike today's ideologues, whom I would call single-minded if mind came into it at all, I have no fear of the state.

it came to her that for some reason Norman was sulking. Behaviour she had seldom come across except in children and the occasional cabinet minister.

The obnoxious behavior and obscure interaction that software-based products exhibit is institutionalizing what I call software apartheid:

Yes, there's a lot of sand here. Beebee-Ate? Okay. Hello, Beebee-Ate. My name is Rey. No, just Rey.

You know what I'm talking about. Mother was monitoring his body. You were monitoring Mother.

The Millennium Falcon." She could not keep the wonder out of her voice. "This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs." "Twelve parsecs.

meal was sensitized: any nonprogrammed disruption

Poe readied himself. The Resistance will not be intimidated by you. As you wish, then. There is no 'Resistance' in this room. Only the pilot Poe Dameron. And I.

To date, however, the boy had proved himself relentlessly ordinary.

One did not have to be trained as a pilot to infer that a dead console did not bode well for future voyaging.

No, I did not saysay that." Ever courteous, Klerjamboo was quick to correct the younger female. "I implied that we should try tu understand it." He gestured with his own somewhat smaller and lighter weapon. "Then we can kill it.

that slimy sycophant Hux

A series of moans came from the Wookiee. Then he turned—and sat down. In the copilot's seat. Rey felt herself tearing up. "You're serious, aren't you?

The sun? Goldman said in an unguarded moment. I hear they've shot it.

many of our current practices seem to be the wrong way around ... we seem to make church complex and discipleship too easy.

Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when it comes to adaptation.

Nick's hesitation was only the twitch of wariness he felt at any prospect of happiness.

A Presbyterian minister recently said to me that science and religion share a sense of wonder. I agree.

I personally favor the creation of a Palestinian state as a consequence of making best efforts to end terrorism, not as a reward for increasing terrorism as a carefully calculated tactic to achieve statehood.