What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally 'inherit' tradition.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

Kesha

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

Publilius Syrus

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live

Natalie Babbit

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hermann Hesse

The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.

John Sununu

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Arthur Golden

To cease smoking is the easiset thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times.

Mark Twain

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life adn there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

Betty Smith

Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.”

George R.R. Martin

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Alexander Broadie