"He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind."
Arthur Urbane Dilley
"You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself."
Kahlil Gibran
"I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring at you."
Karen Hines
"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."
Edward de Bono
"There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others."
Raymond Chandler
"Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is."
Steve Martin
"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."
Aristotle
"It is better to hope than despair."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Steal the hog and give the feet for alms."
George Edward Herbert
"In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust."
Abhijit Naskar
"I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead."
Niall Ferguson
"Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing."
Hank Green
"The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God."
Antoni Gaudi
"We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means."
Condoleezza Rice
"Misogyny has not been completely wiped out anywhere. Rather, it resides on a spectrum, and our best hope for eradicating it globally is for each of us to expose and to fight against local versions of it, in the understanding that by doing so we advance the global struggle."
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