"All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience."
Amit Abraham
"I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing."
Tahereh Mafi
"[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."
Helen Keller
"Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others."
Orrin Woodward
"Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time."
Julian Barnes
"Writing is an incurable psychological disease which only gets worse with writing."
Debasish Mridha
"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue."
Honoré de Balzac
"The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king truth comes riding on a donkey symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!"
David Kirk
"Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness."
Mark Twain
"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will."
La Rochefoucauld
"It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. (...) The 'Tell the truth!' imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman."
Milan Kundera
"Maxim 12: A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries."
Howard Tayler
"There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to."
Rick Yancey
"Only when people are aware will they start to care."
Toni Sorenson
"We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul."
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