Are you planning on following a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?' asked Scrimgeour. 'No, I'm not,'retorted Hermione. 'I'm hoping to do some good in the world!

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

Voltaire

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

A. J. P. Taylor

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

Laura Riding

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Lao Tzu

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

Paulo Coelho

Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.

Lewis H. Lapham

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Blaise Pascal

Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'- All my old loves will be returned to me

Carolyn Turgeon

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

George Sand

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

Simon Fowler

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

Ted Cruz

Principal is a passion for truth!

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