Shirin Ebadi
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
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What is important is that one utilizes one’s intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one’s convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.
Umberto Eco
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear.
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
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I don’t see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
Marian Wright Edelman
There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
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The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people’s children.
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We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
Thomas Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.
Albert Einstein
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
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There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own.
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies…. It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
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Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries – not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.
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If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.
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The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no-one has ever been.
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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reasoning for existing.
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
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More the knowledge, lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge, more the ego …
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‘Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.’
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‘Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society’.
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‘The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil’.
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‘The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing’.
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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
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‘A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty’.
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If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity.
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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Try not to become a man of success but rather become a man of value.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
It’s never too late to be what you might have been.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
T.S. Eliot
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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‘Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go’.
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‘Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them’.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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‘For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice’.
Keith Ellison
Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.
Ralph Ellison
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
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‘Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted’
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.
Eminem (Marshall Mathers III)
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.
Ongounga Emmanuel
Treat others the way you want to be treated, but never expect them to treat you back the same way.
Friedrich Engels
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
English proverb
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
Epictetus
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epicurus
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Euripides
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
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Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour.
Everclear
‘Time stops when the whispers blare
The voices drop hard, but the eyes still stare
The world resolves into a death’s head grin … ‘
from ‘Heartspark Dollarsign‘
Paul Farmer
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.
Colin Farrell
It’s not that I’m stupid. I just don’t think sometimes.
William Faulkner
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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No battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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“…the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”
Federico Fellini
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
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But all this world is like a tale we hear –
Men’s evil, and their glory, disappear.
Andres Fernandez
Do not just slay your demons; dissect them and find what they’ve been feeding on.
(From: The Man Frozen in Time)
I either have something to learn or something to teach, I don’t believe in accidental meetings.
Richard Feynman
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
W.C. Fields
The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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I spent half of my money on booze, women and gambling. The other half I wasted.
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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
Bobby Fischer, Chess Grand Master
The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Those who love deeply never grow old. They may die of old age, but they die young.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Writers aren’t exactly people … they’re a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Ian Fleming
‘Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch’.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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‘The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success’.
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One of the bibles of my youth was ‘Birds of the West Indies,’ by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, ‘My God, that’s the dullest name I’ve ever heard,’ so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.
Fred Flinstone
Yabba Dabba Doo!
Marshall Ferdinand Foch
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Jean de la Fontaine
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Henry Ford
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
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Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
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You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
E.M. Forster
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine. (From ‘A Room With a View‘)
Wang Fou
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation
(This quote is often mis-attributed to Lao Tzu)
Michel Foucalt
If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.
Anatole France
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.
Francisco Franco
You are the slave of what you say and the master of what you do not.
Anne Frank
How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves.
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I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
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Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.
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No one has ever become poor by giving.
Victor Frankl
No-one has the right to do wrong, not even if a wrong has been done to them.
Aretha Franklin
Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.
Benjamin Franklin
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
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The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
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Rebellion Against Tyrants Is Obedience To God.
(Originally proposed by Franklin as the motto for the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States of America).
Michael Franti
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can’t bomb it into peace
– from Bomb the World
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‘I keep on living with the fullness of the one
like the heat of the sun or the skin on the drum‘
– from ‘Skin on the Drum‘.
Maurice Freehill
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
Jacques Fresco
I was asked once, ‘You’re a smart man. Why aren’t you rich?’ I replied, ‘You’re a rich man. Why aren’t you smart?’
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If you think we can’t change the world, it just means you’re not one of those that will.
Robert Frost
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Neil Gaiman
Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.
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Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.
Eduardo Galeano
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
Galileo Galilei
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Game of Thrones
In my experience, eloquent men are right every bit as often as imbeciles.
– Tyrion Lanaster, Game of Thrones (Season 5, episode 9)
Mahatma Gandhi
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it.
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You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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God has no religion.
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
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‘The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong’.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but it is fear.
Garbage (Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, Butch Vig)
I’m only happy when it rains
I feel good when things are going wrong
I only listen to the sad, sad songs
I’m only happy when it rains
Jerry Garcia
Constantly choosing the lesser of the two evils, is still choosing evil.
Stephen Gardiner
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
Marcus Garvey
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Bill Gates
Well, the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
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640K should be enough for anybody.
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I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
(Note, that this quote is attributed to Gates, although there is some dispute over who said it).
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Bob Geldof
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.
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It’s really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you’re going to get it to these people.
Chief Dan George
If you talk with animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you don’t know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.
Richard Gere
None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.
Amy Gerstler
Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.
Kahlil Gibran
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
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To belittle, you have to be little.
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
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though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain.
Andre Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not.
Nathan Gill
If you’ve been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.
Allen Ginsburg
America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
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Ultimately Warhol’s private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
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Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.
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‘Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture’.
George Gissing
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
Charles F. Glassman
Before you discover your soulmate, you must first discover your soul.
John Glenn, astronaut, fifth man in space and first American to orbit Earth (1962)
As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind – every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
Jane Goodall
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Robert Goolrick
If you don’t receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.
The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
Hermann Göring
Education is dangerous – every educated person is a future enemy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Daniel Goleman
True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
Baltasar Gracián
‘A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one’.
Cary Grant
‘Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one’s own past failings’.
Greek proverb
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Zane Grey
Her father had inherited that temper; and at times, like antelope fleeing before fire on the slope, his people fled from his red rages.’
— from ‘Riders of the Purple Sage‘
Dave Grohl
There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
Che Guevara
Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
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We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
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The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.
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Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
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Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world.
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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
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‘If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine’.
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‘Better to die standing, than to live on your knees’.
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Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
Buddy Hackett
As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Shannon Hale
Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
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I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
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I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.
Alex Haley
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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‘Every time you see a turtle on top of a fence post, you know he had some help’.
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Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
Margaret Halsey
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
Pete Hamill
I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
Herbie Hancock
The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we’re non-judgmental.
Thich Nhat Hanh
To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him or her, and he or she is no longer our enemy.
Ismail Haniyeh
Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.
Hannibal (TV series)
I’ve always found the idea of death comforting. The thought that my life could end at any moment frees me to fully appreciate the beauty and art and horror of everything this world has to offer.
Hans F. Hansen
People inspire you, or they drain you – pick them wisely.
E.Y. Harburg
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
Mata Hari
I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.
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‘The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word‘.
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I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.
George Harris (President of Carlton Football Club 1964-1974, 1978-1980)
‘What’s better than beating Collingwood by 10 goals? Beating them by five points.’
This comment angered Collingwood fans as it was made after Carlton beat Collingwood by 5 points in the 1979 grand-final: 11.16.(82) to 11.11.(77).
George Harrison
If we’d know we were going to be the Beatles, we’d have tried harder.
Miranda Hart
I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I’m happy.
Henry Stanley Haskins
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Timber Hawkeye
Radical honesty is about saying what you mean and meaning what you say, but never saying it mean. All conversations would be easier (and shorter) if we just adopted this one rule.
Stephen Hawking
‘If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans’.
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
John Twelve Hawks
Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Louise Hay
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Mitch Hedberg
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.
Chris Hedges
We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and banks destroy the economy.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Robert A. Heinlein
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Joseph Heller
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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Never mistake motion for action.
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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Courage is grace under pressure.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
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Write drunk, edit sober.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Jimi Hendrix
Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.
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I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
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In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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‘When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace’.
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‘scuse me while I kiss the sky’
– from the song, ‘Purple Haze’.
Don Henley (The Eagles)
‘ … ’cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun’.
– from the song ‘Gimme What You Got‘.
Jim Henson
Kids don’t remember what you tried to teach them. They remember what you are.
Audrey Hepburn
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
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The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.
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For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
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‘Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”.
Herodotus
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Hermann Hesse
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Bill Hicks
I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
Patricia Highsmith
My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.
Napoleon Hill
One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.
Heinrich Himmler
‘The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don’t ask for their love; only for their fear’.
Gordon B. Hinckley
The cause of most of man’s unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
Hindu proverb
There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is the one who runs around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong.
Hippocrates
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
Alfred Hitchcock
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
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‘Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house’.
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‘The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder’.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Peter Hitchens
Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?
Hodor
‘Hodor’
Billie Holiday
You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
J. Edgar Hoover
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
Bob Hope
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
Geoffrey Household
I distrust patriotism; the reasonable man can find little in these days that is worth dying for. But dying against – there’s enough iniquity in Europe to carry the most urbane or decadent into battle.
Matt Hughes
Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don’t stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don’t, you’ll die there.
Ted Hughes
The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
Victor Hugo
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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Laughter is the sun which drives winter from the human face.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person
David Hume
A person, seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity: while the haughty Dogmatist, persuaded that he can erect a compleat system of Theology by the mere help of philosophy, disdains any further aid, and rejects this adventitious instructor.
Barry Humphries
‘I’m trying to think of a word to describe your outfit … affordable’.
Ellsworth Huntington
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
Zora Neale Hurston
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Aldous Huxley
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
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It is possible to make people contented with their servitude. You can provide them with endless amounts of distraction and propaganda.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.