The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Alva Edison

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -- henceforth? -- the subject to which you are condemned. The first thought is this: fear. I cannot write because I am afraid. Of what?

Howard Nemerov, Journal of the F

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

P.C. Hodgell

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

Aleister Crowley

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

E. M. Forster, Goldsworthy Lowes

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Walter Benjamin

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.Among the many attributions found for this: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Andre Maurois, Charles Reade, Buddist Proverb, Samuel Smiles, James Allen, George D. Boardman, and Francis E. Willard

Anon., attributed to various sou

I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.

Utada Hikaru

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

Mark Kennedy

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Richard Baxter

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Anton Chekhov