Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine, "Common Sense", 17

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Jeff Goodell

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?

Richard Owen Cambridge

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Kate Chopin

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Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Theodor Adorno

If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action

Bertrand Russell

Generosity is the flower of justice.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

Steve Jobs

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

Frank Ocean