A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behooves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.

The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.

Watkin Tudor Jones

Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.

John Henry Holland

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Gustave Flaubert

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

Ryan Gosling

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Gary Ackerman

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Dale Carnegie

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Denzel Washington

Medieval learning was really advanced.

Terry Jones

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room

Jeremy Collier

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

Pliny the Elder

Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

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