The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so deliberately, that he kills himself with thinking -- one could barely call it suicide since it is thinking which takes his life. He does not kill himself with deliberation but rather kills himself because of deliberation.

Soren Kierkegaard, The Present A

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

Leon Trotsky

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

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A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.

Leo Tolstoy

...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty

Carson Kressley

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Alexander Hamilton

Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.

Estelle Morris

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Donald Laird

Single Ladies Tip: No man is too busy to go after a woman that he really wants, he will make time even if it is 2 minutes. #NoMoreCrumbs

Samantha Gregory

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

Mark Twain

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

Laurel Clark

It Begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.

Steven Pinker