Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

Lance Burton

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Arthur Koestler

All oppression creates a state of war.

Simone de Beauvoir

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

J. August Strindberg

I work to stay alive.

Bette Davis

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

Lord Chesterfield

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is that of knowing whether two and two do make four.

Albert Camus

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that

William Shakespeare

We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use

Mohamed ElBaradei