But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.

Carl L. Becker

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

Kelly Clarkson

The goal of socialism is communism.

Vladimir Lenin

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

Carol Gilligan

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Aristotle

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Marcus Aurelius

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Jane Austen

There are two types of men who never amount to anything. One is the fellow who never does anything except that which he is told to do. The other is the fellow who cannot do even that which he is told to do.

Andrew Carnegie

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

John Hawkes

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln