A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
Robertson Davies
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
Don DeLillo
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
Ho Chi Minh
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus Garvey
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'
Regina Spektor
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
Robert Anton Wilson
Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.
Nick Cannon
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson
No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
Matthew Henry
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato
What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people's trust in North Korea has gone down considerably.
Lee Myung-bak
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Benjamin Disraeli
I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'
Ryan Adams
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.
Kenneth G. Wilson
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
Benedict Cumberbatch
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.
Bill Murray
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
John Charles Polanyi
I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.
Cliff Stearns
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
And our dreams are who we are.
Barbara Sher
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
Bill O'Reilly
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.
George Shearing
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
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