What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves. If all it be nominally that of

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

William Saroyan

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

James Burke

There's never any ability to plan a personal life.

Jerry Kleczka

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

C.S. Lewis

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

Tim Finn

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Abraham Lincoln

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

Cyril Cusack

love is thicker than forgetmore thinner than recallmore seldom than a wave is wetmore frequent than to failit is most mad and moonlyand less it shall unbethan all the sea which onlyis deeper than the sealove is less always than to winless never than aliveless bigger than the least beginless littler than forgiveit is most sane and sunlyand more it cannot diethan all the sky which onlyis higher than the sky

E.E. Cummings

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

George Orwell

Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.

Lillian Russell

The soul can not think without a picture.

Aristotle

The fastest way to double your money is to use Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards