As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

John Boehner

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

William Penn

Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Buddha

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do.

Chaka Khan

I am the truth-teller. I tried never to be mean, but Simon did tell me at one point. 'Doug, if you tell the truth, you don't have a choice.

Doug Hall

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

John Wooden

If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Hannah Arendt

Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.

William Shakespeare

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Earl Nightingale

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Madeleine Albright