I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
It was Trout's fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man's first printing press. You are reading a bold and universal headline which says,'I am here, I am here, I am here.
Kurt Vonnegut
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
Friedrich August von Hayek
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.
Grover Cleveland
We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
Carol Moseley Braun
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman
Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
Ellen DeGeneres
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge
Bertrand Russell
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
Arthur Erickson
The strongest proof that in the name of science we pursue unworthy and sometimes even harmful things is the existence of a science of punishment.
Leo Tolstoy
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Sun Tzu
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
Barack Obama
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
George Eliot
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.
Jodi Picoult
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool.
Josie Maran
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
Albert Camus
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.
Joe Barton
Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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