Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

John Dryden

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

Jerry Stiller

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Manuel Puig

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

Christopher Dodd

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of eternity; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

John Mayall

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms -- in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Amy Winehouse

Granny looked up at the zombie. He was - or, technically, had been - a tall, handsome man. He still was, only now he looked like someone who had walked through a room full of cobwebs.'What's your name, dead man?' she said.

Terry Pratchett

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

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