"What's optimism? Said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell."
Anonymous
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them."
Ralph G. Nichols
"All natural laws retain the balance contained within the scope of that law, no man made law can do this. It is better to understand the natural laws that govern society then to create man made laws that will not work."
R. A. Delmonico
"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."
Will Rogers
"Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction."
Sara Sheridan
"[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state."
CrimethInc.
"What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature."
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
"Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts."
Clarence Day
"The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked."
Nina Power
"It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?"
Idris Elba
"Emotional fog is what a man feels when he begins to answer the questions he has not yet dared to ask himself."
Angelos Michalopoulos
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
James D. Nicoll
"Never tell a depressed person to “Cheer up.” Unless you want them to tell you to “Shut up."
Toni Sorenson
"Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it."
Sakyong Mipham
"It's so easy to judge things we don't understand."
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