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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
Aldous Huxley
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
Stephen Gardiner
I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism.
Ronald Reagan
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
Oscar Wilde
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Samuel Johnson
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
Jane Austen
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.
Stephen King
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
Ernest Hemingway
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life....Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of affective communication between people.
Leo Tolstoy
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
Paulo Coelho
The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
Thomas Carlyle