Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

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Issa

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

The Talmud

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Eric Bently, "Introduction to Na

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Scott Adams

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not the absence of problems it's the ability to deal with them.

Steve Maraboli

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Henry A. Wallace

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Mary Augusta Ward

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

Ethel Waters

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Charles Horton Cooley

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Tim Foley

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

Dwight D Eisenhower