If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.

Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.

Chidi Okonkwo

The recent gain in the stock market is like climbing half-way up a ditch, which is great, but you're still in the ditch

Quinn Van Zanten

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

Azar Nafisi

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.

Tomas G. Masaryk

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Willie Nelson

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

Ethan Suplee

The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.

Virginia Woolf

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Samuel Johnson

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Look at things... as they can be.

Dr. David Schwartz

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

John Locke

Everything I do you blame on me.

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