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41 " Some big guys, they think struttin' the muscle will put your tail between your legs, but all they got is strut, they ain't got the guts to back up the brag "
― Dean Koontz , Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)
42 " Irrational fear feeds on itself and grows. You must deny it. "
43 " When my wits fail me, I resort to self-deception. "
44 " Translating the words on the door, he said, "Light from light." "Waste and void, waste and void. Darkness on the face of the deep," I said. "Then God commanded light. The light of the world descends from the Everlasting Light that is God.""That is surely one thing it means," said Romanovich. "Bit it may also mean that the visible can be born from the invisible, That matter can arise from energy that thought is a form of energy and that thought itself can be concretized into the very object that is imagined. "
45 " ...With a pneumatic hiss, the door slid open.Brother John says the hiss is not an inevitable consequence of the operation of the door. It could have been made to open silently.He incorporated the hiss to remind himself that in every human enterprise, no matter with what virtuous intentions it is undertaken, a serpent lurks. "
46 " Moving the kids was not a good idea, but I sure wanted to see nuns in monster trucks plowing their way through a blizzard. "
47 " ...to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it. "
48 " Mr. Thomas, did you know that in an experiment with a human observer, subatomic particles behave differently from the way they behave when the experiment is observed while in progress and the results are examined, instead, only after the fact?""Sure. Everybody knows that."He raised one bushy eyebrow. "Everybody, you say. Well then you realize what this signifies."I said, "At least on an subatomic level, human will can in part shape reality. "
49 " Even when God is your co-pilot, it pays to pack a parachute. "
50 " We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time. "
51 " So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe——all its matter and forms of energy——arise out of thought. "
52 " You will see that this is true, though you will also see that between the mad and the misguided, the line is as thin as a split hair that has been split again. "
53 " More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps. "
54 " I feel like I've been sliding all day. "
55 " We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances. "
56 " In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. "
57 " How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life. "
58 " Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed. "
59 " ... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret. "
60 " ...,we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, "