I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Patriotism is not obedience to government. Patriotism is obedience to the principals for which government is supposed to stand.
Howard Zinn
Oh what lies lurk in kisses!
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Samuel Butler
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
Sheryl Sandberg
The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.
Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Franklin P. Adams
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James Madison
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. Wells
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
John Muir
Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
Robert A. Heinlein
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken
Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
Joseph Heller
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didnt, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didnt have to; but if he didnt want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. Lewis
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