It is the wise man’s part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
EURIPIDESDeath is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.
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A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.
SHAMS TABRIZI -
Some of us like to take a walk on the wild side.
MICHAEL JACKSON -
I’ve been through a lot of ups and downs. I’ve been on both sides of it all, I guess. So there’s not one specific event or thought that I’m dealing with or drawing from necessarily.
AARON BRUNO -
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
Somedays I fear, I’ll run out of words.
SHREYA JOSHI -
Such words as ‘God’ and ‘Death’ and ‘Suffering’ and ‘Eternity’ are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.
ETTY HILLESUM -
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
GROUCHO MARX -
The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
WINONA RYDER -
England was full of words I’d never heard before – streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
BILL BRYSON -
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON -
There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue – those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS – but they remain strangely silent.
BILL HICKS -
Before I start a company, I always invest at least one year to knowing that sector thoroughly. I research about almost everything related to that business – competition, market potential, revenue model, legal and regulatory obligations, among other aspects.
BHAVIN TURAKHIA -
Without getting too profound, I’m pretty sure that’s where the invention of the afterlife comes from. “
BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT -
Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.
A. A. MILNE -
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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