To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYale’s greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO -
Justice demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.
HANNAH ARENDT -
I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.
MR. T -
So you’re somebody now, but what’s somebody in a nobody town?
THE WEEKND -
I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.
RADHANATH SWAMI -
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
QUENTIN CRISP -
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
YASMIN MOGAHED -
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
PLAUTUS -
School is a good place – it ain’t for everybody, but I think it’s for most people.
J. COLE -
The most outrageous thing happened years ago in my YouTube days, when I asked an older lady – it was like a sexually flavored question and she just slapped me full-on across the face. That’s the one time someone got physically aggressive with me. And it hurt.
BILLY EICHNER -
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
ALAN LIGHTMAN -
You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is – it’s only made to fool you. It’s the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.
RICK ROSS