"Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion."
Emile M. Cioran
"You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws."
Hilary Mantel
"There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go."
E'yen A. Gardner
"Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality."
George Bernard Shaw
"Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing."
Criss Jami
"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."
Charles Sanders Peirce
"People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use 'power words' and see for yourself."
Ziad K. Abdelnour
"Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth."
John Quincy Adams
"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."
Louis Aragon
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Barbara Kingsolver
"The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?"
William Badke
"Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape."
Jacqueline Patricks
"Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday."
John McWhorter
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Douglas Adams
"There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to."
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