"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."
Edward Abbey
"There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."
Frank Buchman
"Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you."
Marissa Meyer
"Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good."
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
"I replay the scene again and again, the broken mashed-up face looming over me, the knowledge between the two of us that I'd done it. That act of kindness is still more unfathomable to me than any cruelty."
Stephanie Oakes
"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."
William Temple
"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."
Barbara W. Tuchman
"The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid."
Gever Tulley
"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."
Frederick Douglass
"A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"There are strategies to score or to be ahead but there is one strategy to learn which is curiosity."
Ronald Tudu
"He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies."
Stephen L. Carter
"Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine."
Russell M. Nelson
"Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way., Nov. 20, 2009]."
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