"Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment."
Isaac Asimov
"But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness."
Marc Morris
"If someone likes you when you are living a lie, remember - he likes the lie, not you."
Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy
"People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use 'power words' and see for yourself."
Ziad K. Abdelnour
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
Anonymous
"Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us."
Bill Moyers
"Composing music changes nations, listening to music changes you."
Alin Sav
"I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer."
Robert Jordan
"All these years! All this time with us -- have you learned nothing?!You only live by the grace of our clan's tenet of forgiveness!Your judgement is shit!Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. Without decency, neither talent nor learning can make the human frame into a samurai."
Rick Remender
"The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego."
Hamza Yusuf
"Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty."
Bishop John Jewell
"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you..."
Colette
"He had to be nice to me at the moment because he had to be surrounded by people. This was because boys like him were, essentially, pasta. Everyone thought they loved him because they had never been forced to experience the true blandness of him on his own."
Matthew Crow
"500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of themagnificent image of a starry sky. Thus light deprives us of 'vision,' anddarkness helps us 'see."
Alija Izetbegović
"It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. (...) The 'Tell the truth!' imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman."
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