A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Lionel Trilling

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Samuel Insull

Therefore you can never lose hope--because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

Cassandra Clare

It is a seldom proferred argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

Walter Cronkite

A proverb is the child of experience.

English Proverb

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Plato

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Anthony de Mello

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

Henry Ward Beecher

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings