"Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending."
Bob Woodward
"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."
Emily Dickinson
"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"That is the beauty of the Common Law it is a maze and not a motorway."
Lord Diplock
"Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining,’ it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs."
Alan Gibson
"Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat."
Maureen Johnson
"A word drops into the mistlike a child's ball into high grasswhere it remains seductivelyflashing and glinting untilthe gold bursts are revealed to besimply field buttercups.Word/mist, word/mist: thus it was with me."
Louise Glück
"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"
Henry David Thoreau
"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."
Jean Cocteau
"But I cant' translate it the right way, that's why I always use so many foreign languages around you, because there're some things that simply can't translate, that are beautiful when you read them the original way."
DarknessAndLight
"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."
Lao Tzu
"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."
Paul Valéry
"Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world."
Richard Dawkins
"Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned."
Johnnie Dent Jr.
"Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness."
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