The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Renata Adler

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I'd rather be right than President.

Henry Clay

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Kurt Vonnegut

I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.

Demi Lovato

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

Mark Caine

We love your adherence to democratic principles and to the democratic process.

George H. W. Bush

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Quentin Crisp

Buying on trust is the way to pay double.

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I have the strong impression that scientific communication is being seriously hindered by poor quality abstracts written in jargon- ridden mumbo jumbo.

Sheila M. McNab

I never trusted good-looking boys.

Frances McDormand

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Elbert Hubbard