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Chiropractic care is the only real, long-lasting relief that I have found for my neck pain due to an old injury.
— James Arness
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors aeons ago.
— Olaf Stapledon
My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.
— Olaf Stapledon
Animals that were fashioned for hunting and fighting in the wild were suddenly called upon to be citizens, and moreover citizens of a world-community.
— Olaf Stapledon
For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes.
— Olaf Stapledon
Distrust, not merely the old distrust of nation for nation, but a devastating distrust of human nature, gripped men like the dread of insanity.
— Olaf Stapledon
Why are we worried!" Rolf said suddenly. "This is God's work. He'll make a way for us.
— Brother Andrew
Humanity also suffered; though, save in the regions near the seat of war, it was in general only the children and the old people who suffered greatly.
— Olaf Stapledon
Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.
— Joss Stone
Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
— Olaf Stapledon
I was a disembodied, wandering view-point.
— Olaf Stapledon
Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.
— Helen Gurley Brown
Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.
— Olaf Stapledon
Why did you make only one of me? It's going to be lonely being me.
— Olaf Stapledon
If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me
— Norah Jones
In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.
— Olaf Stapledon
But the very success which had intoxicated them rendered them also too complacent to learn from less prosperous competitors.
— Olaf Stapledon
Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.
— Olaf Stapledon
My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.
— Olaf Stapledon
Men with sound eyes need not concern themselves with the arguments of blind men to prove that seeing cannot occur.
— Olaf Stapledon
Not finishing is incrediable... it's open end!?
— Deyth Banger
Once more I struck out into the ocean of space, heading for another near star. Once more I was disappointed.
— Olaf Stapledon
In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.
— Olaf Stapledon
I am the scent that he will follow always, hunting for God.
— Olaf Stapledon
Just when you think you have a handle on life, it breaks.
— Jill Shalvis
How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?
— Olaf Stapledon
The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.
— Olaf Stapledon
A nation ... is just a society for hating foreigners.
— Olaf Stapledon
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
— Olaf Stapledon
The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.
— Olaf Stapledon
Studies have shown that people who make sour facial expressions when their spouses talk are likely to be separated within four years.[10]
— Alison Poulsen
Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.
— New York Times
I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.
— Nina Arianda
In a sick world even the hale are sick.
— Olaf Stapledon
