There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Cecil Parkinson

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

William Wycherley

Who knows the life which does not burn its own time moments?

Sorin Cerin

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

G. W. F. Hegel

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

John Buchan

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.

John C. Maxwell

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.

Kim Alexis

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

Colin Powell

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Aristotle

Why do we want to test people for drugs and alcohol? Why don't we test them from stupidity, illiteracy and avarice? The place would be better.

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