Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us
Thomas Jefferson
But I must own that I am much in the Dark about Light. I am not satisfy'd with the doctrine that supposes particles of matter call'd light continually driven off from the Sun's Surface, with a Swiftness so prodigious!
Benjamin Franklin
literary comfort-food down
Stephen King
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
Oscar Wilde
If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.
Stephen Richards
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
Lillian Hellman, The Watch on th
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
Eric Idle
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw
Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.
Paulo Coelho
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Ronald Reagan
Here closed in death th' attentive eyes That saw the manners in the face.
Samuel Johnson
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
Neil Gaiman
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
Genius (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
Thomas Carlyle
The freedom fighters of Nicaragua ... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.
Christopher Hitchens
La suprema dicha de la vida, es la convicción de que se es amado; amado por sà mismo, digamos mejor, ama¬do a pesar de sà mismo.
Victor Hugo
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated
Friedrich Nietzsche
A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.
Cassandra Clare
Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
Peter Drucker
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.
INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
We have eyes and we have nervesesWe have tails we have teethYou'll all get what you deservesesWhen we rise from underneath.
The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution
Constant dropping wears away stones
Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
Bertrand Russell
That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
John Green
Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.
La lassitude est la fin des actes d'une vie machinale, mais elle inaugure en même temps le mouvement de la conscience. Elle l'éveille et elle provoque la suite. La suite, c'est le retour inconscient dans la chaîne, ou c'est l'éveil définitif. Au bout de l'éveil vient avec le temps, la conséquence: suicide ou rétablissement.
Albert Camus
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty toward their king and Church and nobility; as if they had any more occasion to love and honor king and Church and noble than a slave has to love and honor the lash, or a dog has to love and honor the stranger that kicks him! Why, dear me, ANY kind of royalty, howsoever modified, ANY kind of aristocracy, howsoever pruned, is rightly an insult; but if you are born and brought up under that sort of arrangement you probably never find it out for yourself, and don't believe it when somebody else tells you. It is enough to make a body ashamed of his race to think of the sort of froth that has always occupied its thrones without shadow of right or reason, and the seventh-rate people that have always figured as its aristocracies -- a company of monarchs and nobles who, as a rule, would have achieved only poverty and obscurity if left, like their betters, to their own exertions... The truth was, the nation as a body was in the world for one object, and one only: to grovel before king and Church and noble; to slave for them, sweat blood for them, starve that they might be fed, work that they might play, drink misery to the dregs that they might be happy, go naked that they might wear silks and jewels, pay taxes that they might be spared from paying them, be familiar all their lives with the degrading language and postures of adulation that they might walk in pride and think themselves the gods of this world. And for all this, the thanks they got were cuffs and contempt; and so poor-spirited were they that they took even this sort of attention as an honor.
Mark Twain
Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.
The only picture of Tarrou he would always have would be the picture of a man who firmly gripped the steering-wheel of his car when driving, or else the picture of that stalwart body, now lying motionless. Knowing meant that: a living warmth, and a picture of death.
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
C.S. Lewis
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
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