User:MordantMaenad/quotes

It is never too late to give up your prejudices. - Henry David Thoreau Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature abhors a moron. - H.L. Mencken ...take me to the chicken coop. -  The public library, again. Yes, I’m writing a book, Mr Mitchell, and yes, I hope it’ll make some money. But I’m not praising the public library service for money. I love the public library service for what it did for me as a child and as a student and as an adult. I love it because its presence in a town or a city reminds us that there are things above profit, things that profit knows nothing about, things that have the power to baffle the greedy ghost of market fundamentalism, things that stand for civic decency and public respect for imagination and knowledge and the value of simple delight. - Philip Pullman Just as the hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so the routine of everyday life can keep us from seeing the vast radiance and the secret wonders that fill the world. - Chasidic, 18th century