Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity with its comrades abroad. After all, Saddam's ruling Ba'ath Party consolidated its power by first destroying the Iraqi communist and labor movements, and then turning on the Kurds (whose cause, historically, has been one of the main priorities of the Left in the Middle East). When I first became a socialist, the imperative of international solidarity was the essential if not the defining thing, whether the cause was popular or risky or not. I haven't seen an anti-war meeting all this year at which you could even guess at the existence of the Iraqi and Kurdish opposition to Saddam, an opposition that was fighting for 'regime change' when both Republicans and Democrats were fawning over Baghdad as a profitable client and geopolitical ally. Not only does the 'peace' movement ignore the anti-Saddam civilian opposition, it sends missions to console the Ba'athists in their isolation, and speaks of the invader of Kuwait and Iran and the butcher of Kurdistan as if he were the victim and George W. Bush the aggressor.

Christopher Hitchens

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

John W. Gardner

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

Greg Louganis

There is always time for another last minute

Terry Pratchett

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Giovanni Falcone

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

Alexander Smith

Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are

Oscar Wilde

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Mind

Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

Teresa Palmer

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Marquis de Sade