"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."
Voltaire
"How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse."
Norman Mailer
"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."
Louis Kahn
"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
"Humans - a renewable resource."
Carrie Vaughn
"What is holy is Honourable."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Honour was like a coat: sometimes one did not have time to put it on."
Adrian Tchaikovsky
"Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning."
Anonymous
"Three essential virtues are patient, loyalty and kindness."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Without the act of imagination humanity would have perished long back."
Thiruman Archunan
"Never tell a depressed person to “Cheer up.” Unless you want them to tell you to “Shut up."
Toni Sorenson
"You can't drive them around in the getaway van.' 'How about we don't call it the getaway van? People might get suspicious.' 'So what should we call it?' 'How about the van?' 'It doesn't change what it is and that it's a shitty thing to do. Someone might see them in it."
Cath Crowley
"Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same."
bell hooks
"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."
Frederick Douglass
"Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon."
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