The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.
BILL WHITTLEThe world’s history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.
BILLY SUNDAY -
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
ANDY WARHOL -
Yes, you are like the sun so always shine bright.
KEHLANI -
The velvet veins running through my deep-colored wings sing blues, remembering the non-existent maple memories, lighting up my heart’s frosty rays.
DEEPALI SINGHVI -
As to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex
ABRAHAM FLEXNER -
I’m holding onto you, like a cloud holds rain. Knowing at some point I must let go. But waiting for the perfect storm, that will make it so much easier.
TERAZA FAULKNER -
I’m not much involved in sports, and I don’t play, either.
KRITI SANON -
To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
What’s more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, ‘I don’t care about poor people,’ which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.
TALIB KWELI -
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
PLAUTUS -
If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
JEFF BEZOZ -
Focus on your dream and do everything in your power. You have the power to change your life circumstances.
NICK VUJICIC -
I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.
ADAM SHANKMAN -
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
ROLAND BARTHES -
I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I’d touched bottom.
PAUL THEROUX -
I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER -
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
ADRIENNE RICH -
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
In order to reprogram the subconscious mind, you need to relax the body. Release the tension. Let the emotions go. Get to a state of openness and receptivity. You are always in change. You are always safe.
LOUISE HAY -
States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence – so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only – or well that’s excessive – usually, the resistance.
ARUNDHATI ROY -
There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
CASEY STENGEL -
Nature loves to hide.
HERACLITUS -
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
BETTE MIDLER -
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEY -
Make love to this body like you always have.
EMMA LOUISE -
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY