I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

The thoroughbred wanderer

Sir Richard Francis Burton, Pers

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

Orville Wright

...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Addr

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

Orson Scott Card

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

David Bowie

Good education is not what fills your head with facts but what stimulates curiosity. You then learn for the rest of your life.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.

Paulo Coelho

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Bono

The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.

Karl Kraus

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

Edmond de Goncourt

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Henry David Thoreau