The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating the mind; it's like a car battery - it recharges by running.
Bill Watterson
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.
Jodi Picoult
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin
The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.
Johanna Siguroardottir
Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
George Jones
The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
John Avlon
God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
Ernest Hemingway
I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.
Charlotte Church
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity.
Plutarch
I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
Dalai Lama
Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
Peter Sotos
It was not desirable that the pitiless should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they become discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.
George Orwell
The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.
Brendan Coyle
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
Jack LaLanne
To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
Jeff Miller
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
Voltaire
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.
Michelle Obama
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. Kennedy
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
Mark Twain
Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
John James Audubon
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
Napoleon Hill
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.
George Eliot
Character is simply habit long continued.
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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