"Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends."
Ron Chernow
"If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you special, too!"
Jeff Hutchins
"I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place."
Donald Davis
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
Aristotle
"Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. Have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown."
Henry David Thoreau
"Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen."
E. Lockhart
"Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience."
Alafair Burke
"The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present."
Eoin Colfer
"I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it moves."
Anonymous
"Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."
Horace Mann
"If the sun never set, we would have no perception of the vast depths of space, which become visible only at night when we are able to see what is obscured by the bright daylight."
William Keepin
"The purpose of subduing is a function of taking responsibility for the entire earth."
Sunday Adelaja
"No one in this world is in a position to interfere with you. Therefore, do not find fault with the world; the fault is only yours. These are the echoes of interferences that you had caused. Had you not interfered, there would be no echoes that would hit you."
Anonymous
"500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of themagnificent image of a starry sky. Thus light deprives us of 'vision,' anddarkness helps us 'see."
Alija Izetbegović
"I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil."
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