Greg Iles Quotes

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Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

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A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

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The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

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The larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

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Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

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Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

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Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

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We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

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Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

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Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

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To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

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Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

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They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth.

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I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

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Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

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Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.

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Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

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When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

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A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

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When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

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Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground.

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