The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Bernard Baruch

Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.

Josh Billings

As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

Susan Rice

Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.

Mike Myers

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense

Mark Twain

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Georges Bataille

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde

So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error, but some sober browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts.

William Shakespeare

There's always a free lunch with Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

William Blackstone, Commentaries

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

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