By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
ADAM WEISHAUPTHappy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
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To do that I knew I had to learn French. In order to practice I started to write journals in French. The effort I made to master what I regarded a bad thing – a language owned by the rich Moroccans – brought me the ability to write.
ABDELLAH TAIA -
This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they’re in trouble And I am not.
A. E. HOUSMAN -
Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.
ADAM LINDSAY GORDON -
We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
BARRY LYGA -
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
ROBIN WILLIAMS -
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE -
I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
TYLER PERRY -
I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
Writing is making sense of life.
NADINE GORDIMER -
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
If he can’t hear you when you’re silent, he won’t hear you when you’re not.
BRAD NEATON -
And when I don’t utter a word, that is when I feel the most.
OLIVIA CLIFFORD -
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
MAYA ANGELOU -
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
NINA SIMONE