"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
"Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth."
Andrei A. Gromyko
"A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice."
Frances Mayes
"Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don't know something I don't really in fact know it?"
Zhuangzi
"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."
Louis Kahn
"Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing."
Michael Bassey Johnson
"Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us."
Julia Penelope
"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."
Arthur Miller
"The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds."
Alfred de Vigny
"All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience."
Amit Abraham
"Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me."
Bernard Cornwell
"Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him."
Thomas Carlyle
"The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn."
Thomas Babington Macaulay
"Ignorance is the master key of all evils."
Efrat Cybulkiewicz
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference."
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