Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Benjamin Disraeli

Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso.(Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick)

Proverb

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Henry Clay

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Leo Tolstoy

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Jean Cocteau

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Samuel Butler

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

William Osler

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

E. O. Wilson

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

C.S. Lewis

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

Lea Michele

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

Amy Waldman

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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