It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke
I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.
Cassandra Clare
Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.
Source Unknown
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields -- discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West -- superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.
Henrik Ibsen
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
Thomas Jefferson
I, for one, have never in my life come across a perfectly healthy human being.
Thomas Mann
The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.
John McKinley
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
Steven Morrissey
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
Marianne Moore
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