Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories, they are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of diversion and preference.

An old colored brother is said to have finished his prayer with words like these: and now good Lord; I know that you ain't going to let nothing come to me that me and you together can't handle.

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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

Herman Melville

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Michael Pollan

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Thomas Jefferson

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Milton Friedman

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

Camille Paglia

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.

Sheena Easton

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

To create something you must be something.

Johann von Goethe

You can't take the human out of the person.

Tommy Tran

I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.

Boomer Esiason

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson