Josh Bazell Quotes

#1. What a fascinating mix a hospital can be of people in a huge hurry and people too slow to get out of their way.

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#2. If you're going to be soulless, you should at least consider outsourcing your conscience to someone else.

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#3. Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with.

Judith Orloff

#4. You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

Marc Benioff

#5. That look you get after every bone in your face has been broken at least once and then allowed to set without medical attention

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#6. There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

Denis Johnson

#8. The complete destruction of the human race is fairly amusing, obviously, particularly if it's going to happen through overpopulation and technology, the only two hobbies we've ever taken seriously.

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#9. Ah, youth. It's like heroin you've smoked instead of snorted. Gone so fast you can't believe you still have to pay for it.

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#10. Deliverance' is The Godfather for crackers.

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#11. At least in the Gilded Age age they gilded shit.

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#12. The journey from shame to resentment is the shortest on there is.

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#13. It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

Brent Weeks

#14. My medical students. Two cups of human misery in short white coats. One is male and the other one female, and they both have names. That's all I can ever remember about them.

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#15. If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Justin Cronin

#16. Calling a tongue piecing 'cosmetic' is a bit of a stretch, since you don't get one because it makes you look better. You get one because you're so desperate for affection that you're willing to gruesomely harm yourself to advertise how well you suck dick.

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#17. The fucking beef industry and the fucking HMO industry,' Friendly says. 'Al-Cowda and HMOsama.

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#18. So I'm on my way to work and I stop to watch a pigeon fight a rat in the snow, and some fuckhead tries to mug me!

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#19. It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.

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#20. But none of that is possible," he continued, "if my heart is at war. A heart at war needs enemies to justify its warring. It needs enemies and mistreatment more than it wants peace.

The Arbinger Institute

#21. I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.

Natsuki Takaya

#22. When God is truly angry, He will not send vengeful angels.
He will send Magdalena.
Then take her away.

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#23. Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker.

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