What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore de Balzac

I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Keanu Reeves

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Studie

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Tony Snow

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

Christopher Bond

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Francis Picabia

Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, caf?s full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

Jos

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Orison Swett Marden

The 2 Major US Political parties have divided and conquered the US Voters by making elections about polarizing issues like abortion, gun control, gay marriage and rich vs poor while they steal the Country blind

Don Mashak

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Ramsey Clark

Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

Peter Jennings

Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur

Samuel Johnson