There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

Stephen Breyer

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination.

General George Catlett Marshall

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

Theodor Adorno

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Sir Thomas Browne

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep

A.P. Herbert

Lots of comedians have people they try to mimic. I mimic myshadow.

Steven Wright

Half my life is an act of revision.

John Irving

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Victor Hugo

In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.

James Henry Breasted

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

R. D. Laing

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Gaston Bachelard