All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
BLACK ELKPrivacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government – but the reverse… If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
If you hate much, punish much: if you hate little, punish little: punish as you hate. If you hate not at all, punish not at all
JEREMY BENTHAM -
Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
BEN NICHOLSON -
The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.
BRAD LEITHAUSER -
I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY -
It was beautiful for as long as it lasted, you’ve felt it all & now it’s time to move on.
ZAHRA H DARIPOUR -
I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don’t just want to do this for temporary money.
CARDI B -
I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
FINNEAS -
When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR -
Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.
BILL SHORTEN -
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
KAZUO ISHIGURO -
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
BEN ELTON -
The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things
MEHER BABA -
I definitely take time to smell the flowers because I feel like my upbringing was quite a bit different than most guys on Tour.
TONY FINAU -
Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
ALAN JAY LERNER