If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

Robert M. Gates

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Sir Winston Churchill

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Bob Riley

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

Virginia Woolf

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Tadao Ando

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Eli

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

George Santayana

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Billy Graham

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Marcel Proust

All writing is rewriting.

John Green

By My life! But for the obligation to acknowledge the Cause of Him Who is the Testimony of God... I would not have announced this unto thee... All the keys of heaven God hath chosen to place on My right hand, and all the keys of hell on My left...

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