To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Steven Wright

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

B. Wilberforce

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Jose Marti

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.

Benjamin Franklin

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Martin Luther

Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Jos

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

Alain de Botton

Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.

Virgil Goode

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

Vladimir Kramnik