The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
BERNARD CRICKThe average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
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Wikipedia, a nonprofit, is an enormously popular website but has managed to operate without advertising. And, you know, maybe it’s a little simpler than Google and YouTube, but it does show there’s another way.
TIM WU -
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Sometimes I want a quiet life other times I want to go a little bit fucking Gatsby.
ATTICUS -
Less rushing, more lingering. Less distraction, more noticing. Less comparison, more gratitude.
MELISSA ANDERSON -
Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
LORD BYRON -
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
NOVALIS -
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
HERACLITUS -
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
VICTOR HUGO -
I can say, ‘Well, I’m a male. I’m a male human. I’m a medical doctor. I’m an author…’ If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, ‘I am a soul. I am a spirit.’ If I go into science, I will say, ‘I am energy. I am light.’ But the truth is I have no idea what I am.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZ -
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
OTTO VON BISMARCK -
And many of the alarmists on global warming, they’ve got a problem cause the science doesn’t back them up. And in particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there’s been zero warming. None whatsoever.
TED CRUZ -
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
SETH GODIN -
I’ve seen it, I know it too; love still dances in the fire after the rescue.
ODD KEN -
There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.
BEN GOLDACRE -
Every man prays in his own language.
DUKE ELLINGTON