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Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.


Diana Wynne Jones


#aiming #always #blueprints #dealing #extent

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.


Emmett Kelly


#ago #always #circus #claim #going

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.


Clark Kerr


#anywhere #balance #british #confused #german

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.


Chuck Klosterman


#anyone #bad #because #cannot #claims

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.


Thomas Kuhn


#does #fact #finds #none #normal

I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.


Richard Land


#appalled #both #claim #concerning #events

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.


Neil Gaiman


#blood #book #fantasy #food #funny

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.


Claude Levi-Strauss


#being #claim #fact #how #i

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.


Naguib Mahfouz


#burned #defended #full #history #ideas

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.


Mohsen Makhmalbaf


#because #claim #entire #everybody #hold