OTHELLO: Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
— Othello, III, iii
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Everything that happens in life has a scientific explanation — if you look for it.
— The Doctor, in “The Daemons”
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“There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.” — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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Justice is love on legs, spilling over into the public sphere Cornel West
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Oh, those are my subconscious thoughts. I shouldn't listen to them too hard if I were you; I'm not all that proud of some of them.
— The Doctor, in “The Time Monster”
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JULIET: I must hear from thee every day in the hour,
For in a minute there are many days.
— Romeo and Juliet, III, v
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“The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.” — James Thurber, "On The Brink of Was," The New Yorker (01958-12-07)
#JamesThurber #Quotation #Quote #QOTD #Art…
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
> To put every man in possession of his own time, and rescue the day from the succession of usurpers, is beyond my power, and beyond my hope. Yet perhaps, some stop might be put to this unmerciful persecution, if all would seriously reflect, that whoever pays a […]
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
> The doctrine of eternal pain is my trouble with this Christian religion. I reject it on account of its infinite heartlessness.
**Robert Green Ingersoll** (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1884-01-20), “Orthodoxy,” Tabor Opera House […]
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“You haven't won the game yet, Morgaine.”
“I could always defeat you at chess, Merlin.”
“Who said anything about playing chess? I've been playing poker. And I have an Ace up my sleeve...”
— The Doctor and Morgaine, in “Battlefield”
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LADY ANNE: O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!
— Richard III, I, ii
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
> I think the gist of the matter is that a saint can live without politeness, and indeed that politeness is incompatible with a saintly character. But the man who is always to be sincere must be free from spite and envy and malice and pettiness. Most of us have […]
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A quotation from Montaigne
> There is another kind of “glory”: conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it […]
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A quotation from Eric Hoffer
> The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
**Eric Hoffer** (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
_Passionate State of Mind_ , Aphorism 280 (1955)
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A quotation from Josh Billings
> It iz one ov the hardest things on earth for a man to learn,—that he plays a third rate game ov whist.
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> [It is one of the hardest things on earth for a man to learn — that he plays a third-rate game of whist.]
**Josh Billings** (1818-1885) American humorist […]
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A quotation from Ben Franklin
> When the Well’s dry, we know the Worth of Water.
**Benjamin Franklin** (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
_Poor Richard_ (1746 ed.)
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A request for quotation gives companies an opportunity to bid on a task/project to give some fair competition and pricing for who needs it. #business #rfq #quotation #project #competition
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Some of my favorite quotations from the new book. Do any of them resonate with you?
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DEMETRIUS: It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard discourse, my lord.
— A Midsummer Night's Dream, V, i
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We're talking about one of the most powerful blokes in the cosmos. “Nobble” him?
— The Doctor, in “The Three Doctors”
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A quotation from Melville
> Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
**Herman Melville** (1819-1891) American writer
Story (1854-06), “Poor Man’s Pudding […]
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
> Almost everybody is deeply affected when some one he loves suffers from cancer. Most people are moved when they see the sufferings of unknown patients in hospitals. Yet when they read that the death-rate from cancer is such-and-such, they are as a rule only […]
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“He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.” — Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
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A quotation from James Thurber
> By definition, humor is gentle. The savage, the cruel, the harsh would fall under the heading of wit and/or satire, as the lawyers say. Now, my definitions are these: The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun […]
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DIONYZA: Nurses are not the fates;
To foster is not ever to preserve.
— Pericles, IV, iii
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Well, at least in something as simple as a punt nothing can go wrong — no coordinates, no dimensional stabilizers, nothing. Just the water, a punt, a strong pair of hands, and the pole. <then loses the pole>
— The Doctor, in “Shada”
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“Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.” — Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters
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A quotation (probably) from Hannah Arendt
> The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.
**Hannah Arendt** (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
> When I find myself hotly defending something, when I am, in fact, zealous, it is time for me to step back and examine whatever it is that has me so hot under the collar. Do I think it’s going to threaten my comfortable rut? Make me change and grow? — and […]
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