Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill
The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
Bill Wheeler
But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
Morgan Freeman
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange
Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.
Stephen Moyer
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
Joseph Stiglitz
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
Elizabeth Edwards
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
Pat Metheny
In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
Brad Henry
I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.
Jerry O'Connell
I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing.
Seann William Scott
One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.
Nick Clegg
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
Baz Luhrmann
There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.'
John Shelton Reed
And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?
Emma Thompson
Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
Cameron Crowe
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
David Hockney
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