When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

There was a beautiful time...

Sylvia Plath

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

John Clayton

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

Horatio Nelson

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Matthew Arnold

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

Dave Barry

The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.

Cassandra Clare

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

Steve Kerr

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And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

Camille Paglia

Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard to agree. You shine brighter than the Milky Way.Now there are those who might try to take that from you, but you don't have to give it away. Keep on shining Pattyn.And when the right young man comes along, he'll love you all the more for giftin' this sad planet with your light.

Ellen Hopkins

The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.

Juvenal