Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

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Germaine Greer

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Francis Bacon

Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula.

Dr. Louis Orr

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Edward de Bono

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Jo Coudert

I shall try to persuade first the Rulers and soldiers, and then the rest of the community, that the upbringing and education we have given them was all something that happened to them only in a dream. In reality they were fashioned and reared, and their arms and equipment manufactured, in the depths of the earth, and Earth herself, their mother, brought them up, when they were complete, into the light of day; so now they must think of the land in which they live as their mother and protect her if she is attacked, while their fellow citizens they must regard as brothers born of the same mother earth. That is the story. Do you know of any way of making them believe it? Not in the first generation, he said, but you might succeed with the second, and later generations.

Plato

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

Sally Kellerman

I have dedicated my life to the way of Allah, Most High.

Khalid ibn al-Walid

I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.

Alice Cooper

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

Marion Cotillard