When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

Carl Sandburg

Nature has but one judgment on wrong conductif you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to conduct as suchthe judgment of death.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

Source Unknown

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

Rebecca West

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

Kenny Marchant

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

Blaise Pascal

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Jane Heard

If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

RuPaul

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James

But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.

Raymond E. Feist

According to other writers, it is the women who last longest in sieges, the young men who soonest fall into that deadly lethargy that precedes actual death. But the account is accurate enough: that is what a siege is like. Moreover, that is what it is meant to be like. When a city is encircled and deprived of food, it is not the expectation of the attackers that the garrison will hold out until individual soldiers... drop dead in the streets. The death of ordinary inhabitants of the city is expected to force the hand of the civilian or military leadership. The goal is surrender; the means is not the defeat of the enemy army, but the fearful spectacle of the civilian dead.

Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach