The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

William Shakespeare

Science is not gadgetry.

Warren Weaver

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Jim Bishop, Age of Consent to Wh

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.

Ron Fournier

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Harmon Killebrew

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

John Green

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

David Attenborough

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

Stevie Wonder

Everybody talks about being rich, Cosmic Ordering does something about it.

Stephen Richards

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

George Orwell, Politics and the

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

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