And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Charles Montesquieu

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

Reed Hastings

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.

Victor Hugo

The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development of its people's intelligence.

Luis Albert Machado

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

Hu Shih

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

David Geffen

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

Terry Pratchett

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.

Comer Cotrell

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.

Ellen Stugis Hooper

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.

Thomas Carlyle

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

Dave Eggers