"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."
Max Beerbohm
"What’s the old saying? Ah, I remember now. ‘Curiosity flayed the cat alive, ripped it apart limb from limb, and listened to it scream before it killed it.’ That’s the one."
Simon Holt
"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."
Leon Trotsky
"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."
Edward Abbey
"Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood."
Israelmore Ayivor
"Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study."
Wynton Marsalis
"At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work."
Christine Kenneally
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are."
Kurt Cobain
"If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?"
Bill Willingham
"Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical."
Bryant McGill
"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of."
Robert Benchley
"Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves."
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