"I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent."
Jim Butcher
"For poets the wages of sin are poverty."
William Logan
"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
"Sing to me a tune of patience; A dream borne of tenacity. Pervade unto my being, a cadence; Whisper to me the depths of eternity..."
Marius
"Wiseman participates, others are just observers."
Santosh Avvannavar
"Understanding leads to acceptance."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
Richard Avedon
"That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of God), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those innumerable mischiefs that mankind (on account of religion) have done to themselves or to one another."
Matthew Tindal
"Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.'."
Martha Beck
"After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer."
William R. Alger
"And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne."
Frank Cottrell Boyce
"Journalism allows it's readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it."
John Hersey
"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
"I pat her on the head. 'Oh, naive little Kitten. Dear, foolish girl. This cookie is worth all this and more. Sit or you will not partake."
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