You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
Life, they urge, would be intolerable if men were to be guided in all they did by reason and reason only. Reason betrays men into the drawing of hard and fast lines, and to the defining by language -- language being like the sun, which rears and then scorches. Extremes are alone logical, but they are always absurd; the mean is illogical, but an illogical mean is better than the sheer absurdity of an extreme. There are no follies and no unreasonablenesses so great as those which can apparently be irrefragably defended by reason itself, and there is hardly an error into which men may not easily be led if they base their conduct upon reason only.Reason might very possibly abolish the double currency; it might even attack the personality of Hope and Justice. Besides, people have such a strong natural bias towards it that they will seek it for themselves and act upon it quite as much as or more than is good for them: there is no need of encouraging reason. With unreason the case is different. She is the natural complement of reason, without whose existence reason itself were non- existent.If, then, reason would be non-existent were there no such thing as unreason, surely it follows that the more unreason there is, the more reason there must be also? Hence the necessity for the development of unreason, even in the interests of reason herself. The Professors of Unreason deny that they undervalue reason: none can be more convinced than they are, that if the double currency cannot be rigorously deduced as a necessary consequence of human reason, the double currency should cease forthwith; but they say that it must be deduced from no narrow and exclusive view of reason which should deprive that admirable faculty of the one-half of its own existence. Unreason is a part of reason; it must therefore be allowed its full share in stating the initial conditions.http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/butler.html
Samuel Butler, Erewhon (first pu
There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
Joni Mitchell
Every one is a genius, more or less. No one is so physically sound that no part of him will be even a little unsound, and no one is so diseased but that some part of him will be healthy -- so no man is so mentally and morally sound, but that he will be in part both mad and wicked; and no man is so mad and wicked but he will be sensible and honourable in part. In like manner there is no genius who is not also a fool, and no fool who is not also a genius.
Samuel Butler, Erewhon
Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell.
Samuel Butler, Samuel Butler, 19
The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It's awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn't interfere with much.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...
Elizabeth Hardwick
The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
John Cusack
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
E. M. Forster, Goldsworthy Lowes
My mom really instilled in me that I'm beautiful and I can do anything, and I echo that now with my own girls.
Jennie Garth
Letters to absence can a voice impart,And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
Horace Walpole, Horace Walpole
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, A Wom
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal, Lettres provincia
I love insects. They are amazing.
Andrea Arnold
SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,For thus, friends absent speak.
John Donne, To Sir Henry Wotton,
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
Michael McCaul
Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.For in best understandings sin began,Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched weAre beasts in all but white integrity.
John Donne, To Sir Henry Wotton
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus
And none will hear the postman's knockWithout a quickening of the heart.For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
W. H. Auden
My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
Dalai Lama
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
Aaron Allston
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks 1
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
Shimon Peres
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Ne
You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.
Marlon Wayans
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
Les Brown
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world ? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue our future lives will be less afflicted.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.
Charles Caleb Colton
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
John Ruskin
I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medic
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
Reinhold Niebuhr
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
Frank Herbert
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Andre Gide
Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.
Michael Jordan
Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!'
Gustavo Dudamel
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.
Camillo Benso Conte Di Cavour
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
Paul Harris
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
Katherine Cebrian
Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.
Suze Orman
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