"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us."
E.M. Forster
"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
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful graces of God."
William Kent Krueger
"From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft."
George F. Will
"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
Voltaire
"Surprising choice proves hardest to come by. Most choices, even the disastrous ones, are predictable."
Carrie Snyder
"You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me."
Mary Oliver
"It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up."
Rick Riordan
"One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him."
Immanuel Kant
"Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure."
Andre Bustanoby
"When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so."
R. N. Prasher
"He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty."
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."
Carl Sandburg
"The fact is: Jesus wrote not a solitary word that survives. Equally astounding is historical silence: not a single historical account refers to him during his lifetime from any source whatsoever, Roman or Jewish, official or personal."
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
"Always be straight with flexibility and positive; it is medicine for two, first for your in health and second your wounded enemy."
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