"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
Mark Twain
"Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster."
J. Christopher Herold
"As long as we take thought, we will continue to matter'."
Vivian Amis
Inspiration
Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.
Author
"Good taste is the flower of good sense."
Poincelot
"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."
Unknown
Inspiration
No one in this world is in a position to interfere with you. Therefore, do not find fault with the world; the fault is only yours. These are the echoes of interferences that you had caused. Had you not interfered, there would be no echoes that would hit you.
Author
Inspiration
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
William Gaddis
"Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]."
Jean-Henri Fabre
"A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well."
Glen Chambers
Inspiration
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
Robert Jordan
"What a fool honesty is."
Anonymous
"...It's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique to Oxford, as libraries were deconstructed throughout the land."
Owen Gingerich
Inspiration
I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.
John Updike
Inspiration
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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