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Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian GraySin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
Neil Gaiman, SandmanIt has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown.
William Ralph IngeWe have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.
Douglas LurtanWhen you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.
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Sir Walter ScottOh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
Martin Luther King, Jr.It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria ProtectivaAll governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
Alexander HamiltonThose who stand for nothing fall for anything.
QwatsinasWe must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.
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Bob MarleyGet up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Never give up the fight.
Jawaharlal NehruPeace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Bertrand RussellOrder, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Soren KierkegaardPrayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, MeditationsThe universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAt 18 our convictions are hills from which we look At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
Henry David ThoreauTo a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
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General Robert E. LeeDuty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
Persian ProverbEpigrams succeed where epics fail.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2The rest is silence.
Jack Handey Deep ThoughtsI can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little bits of cheese They probably break down into their various gases before they even hit.
Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Jean KerrEven though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
William Butler YeatsThe only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Mignon McLaughlinIt's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Neil ArmstrongIt suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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William Bennet MunroPeople vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
Samuel ButlerPeople care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
Oscar WildeThe fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
Louis K. AnspacherMarriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Lawrence DownsA good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.
Martha SingleterryPain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.
William ShakespeareConversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Rabindranath TagoreMan is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
Michel de MontaigneIt is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others
Benjamin DisraeliSuccess is the child of audacity.
H. L. MenckenNobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
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Will MossLove is not blind-It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Oswald WylerStudent: "Can you do problem number twelve?" Wyler: Twelve?...NO!...That problem is on the test.
Dr. Thomas Arnold BennettNo mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Sean O'CaseyAll the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Clive Staples LewisI believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
James ThurberThe wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.