There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

E. M. Forster

When everything else fails read the instructions.

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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Aesop

Three turns should do it.

J.K. Rowling

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Marjane Satrapi

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Jack Simplot

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

Nicholas Murray Butler

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

Muqtada al Sadr

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II