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“All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation”
W. H. Auden
“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”
Dave Matthews Band
“The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough”
Denise Shekerjian
“Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.”
Walter Savage Landor
“Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”
Sydney J. Harris
“The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him”
Cyril Connolly
“Clean your finger before you point at my spots”
Benjamin Franklin
