"The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness."
Edwin Booth
"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
Eric Hoffer
"Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb."
Ma Jian
"The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it."
Rosamund Hodge
"I don't like to sugarcoat, it can cause an addiction to B.S."
Angel M.B. Chadwick
"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Don’t speak of action [effect]. Don’t serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."
Anonymous
"Knowledge is not always power."
Kara Lee Corthron
"One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies."
Phil Ochs
"Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else."
Anonymous
"Why then should witless man so much misweeneThat nothing is but that which he hath seene?"
Edmund Spenser
"How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination."
Nellie Bly
"We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by making it lower case."
Geoffrey Wood
"Astrology is a cousin of racism."
Penn Jillette
"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
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