Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador Dali
Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
Michael Ramsey
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
James Madison
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
William Butler Yeats
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting
Matt Damon
Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
Marc Andreessen
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
Clarence Darrow
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
Alan Alda
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.
Mary Wesley
You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
William James
You can only be free if I am free.
I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
Mother Jones
He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. On Calvin Coolidge
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
Quentin Crisp
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
Gertrude Stein
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
Karen Duffy
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Johannes Brahms
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
William Blake
Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.
Henri Nouwen
The trouble with law is lawyers.
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
Barack Obama
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Benjamin Disraeli
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
It's clever, but is it Art?
Rudyard Kipling
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