The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

Science is itself one of the modifications of amour-propre, the love of inequality.

Allan Bloom

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape

William Shakespeare

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Ann Landers

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.

Cheryl Cole

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

Stephen Wolfram

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

Monica Lewinsky

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

Matt Blunt

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

Peter Jennings

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

Mark Twain, 1862

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, 196

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

Florence Welch