To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
John Charles Polanyi
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
Jos
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
John Adams
I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Charles Caleb Colton
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
P. J. Harvey
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.
PSY
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
Henry Flynt
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the caf
There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
Doris Lessing
This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.
No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.
Ellen DeGeneres
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine the Great
With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.
Artur Davis
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco Chanel
When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.
Michel Martelly
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjold, Markings: Diar
Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.
Arne Duncan
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Lyndon B. Johnson
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Patrick Kavanagh
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
Carmen Sylva
The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
Eden Ahbez
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