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1 " What mancan you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he isdying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed,Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. "
― Seneca , Letters from a Stoic
2 " Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom. "
3 " Dad reckons if you have a great time in one place, then that's a good reason for never going back. Nothing will ever measure up to the first time. He laughs at people who go to the same place every year, same beach, same house, same things to do. "
― James Moloney , Angela (The Gracey Trilogy #3)
4 " Being positive reckons the unexpected. "
― Toba Beta , Master of Stupidity
5 " ...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the right questions. All art fails if it is asked to be representative—the purpose of fiction is not to replace life anymore than it is meant to support some political movement or ideology. All fiction reinscribes the problematic past in terms of the present, and, if it is significant at all, reckons with it instead of simply making it palatable or pretty. What aesthetic is adequate to the Holocaust, or to the recent tragedy in Haiti? Narrative is not exculpatory—it is in fact about culpability, about recognizing human suffering and responsibility, and so examining what is true in us and about us. If we’re to say anything important, we require an art less facile, and editors willing to seek it. "
― Michael Copperman
6 " Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow...." " I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily enough. What happens if you break it, then?" " You die," said Ron simply. " Fred and George tried to get me to make one when I was about five. I nearly did too, I was holding hands with Fred and everything when Dad found us. He went mental," said Ron, with a reminiscent gleam in his eyes. " Only time I've ever seen Dad as angry as Mum. Fred reckons his left buttock has never been the same since." “Yeah, well, passing over Fred’s left buttock —”" I beg your pardon?" said Fred's voice as the twins entered the kitchen. "
7 " And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens And his aunts! "
8 " Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. "
