Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

Richard Cobden

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing it's not a western invention.

Garry Kasparov

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.

Zac Posen

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.

Paul Ryan

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Antonin Dvorak

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

Jean Baudrillard

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porter

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Billy Strayhorn

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Andrew Carnegie

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Annie Lennox