Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
~ Franz Kafka
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Sexual desire encompasses desires for power, belonging, advantage and disruption that we would not typically think of as erotic.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times
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No circumstance is ever so desperate that one cannot nurture some spark of hope.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.
~ Jim Collins
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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.
~ George C. Marshall
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Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. I think what gives my works whatever universality they have is that they use the metaphysical secret world to describe some realities of the overt world.
~ John le Carré
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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It was one of those nights when the sky came down and wrapped itself around the world. The rain clawed at the windows of the bar like an angry cat and tried to sneak in every time some drunk lurched in the door. The place reeked of stale beer and soggy men with enough cheap perfume thrown in to make you sick.
~ Mickey Spillane via The Big Kill (1951)
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