He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Baltasar Gracian, The Oracle
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
Alan Dershowitz
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
Norman Douglas, The Oracle
Men should strive to think much and know little.
Democritus
Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignity?Who has not been sweptBy the wish to hurt?And who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure?
Jacob Bronowski, The Face of Vio
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen Glasgow, Letters of Ellen
It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name, it
JeanPaul Sartre, from the prefac
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Tru
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Tri
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. Forster
There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
Bryan Adams
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.
Fran, A Letter to Myself
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Don Marquis, The Almost Perfect
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur
Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
Catherine Deneuve
The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
Bill Nelson
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
Brian Eno
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.
Mark Kennedy
The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.
Bobby Ray Inman
This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.
Jerry Moran
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
Michael Caine
Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
Vanessa Williams
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
Chuck Palahniuk
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
Holden Caulfield
I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.
Jacob Hacker
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
Karen Armstrong
I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.
Stephen Bayley
Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else.
Nashua Cavalier
We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.
Lauro Cavazos
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Allen Klein
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
Dick Cavett
My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
Victor Cruz
It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear.
That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.
Emir Kusturica
You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.
Emma Thompson
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
Clement Mok
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.
Timothy Murphy
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