History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
JAMES THURBERMankind is made great or little by its own will.
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A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.
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Music’s free and music’s for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.
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She is one of God’s women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU -
I don’t think it serves any minority or underrepresented group to be coddled. Because the world won’t coddle you. So I actually believe in tough love, hard truths, black and white.
JESSICA ALBA -
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
SHARON SALZBERG -
lf. I wasn’t going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.
ADAM LAMBERT -
If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail.
KATE WINSLET -
You can love the way you look but still hate the way you are.
BURIED CAESAR -
We’d won the argument 15 years before, we were just losing the fight. And so it became clear to some of us that we would need to organise to fight, that we weren’t going to win.
BILL MCKIBBEN -
Learn to choose your mental health over old attachments.
HANNA SHEBAR -
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMAN -
A man who doesn’t think differently from his time and environment can’t grow beyond his time and environment.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK -
God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it’s much easier with Him by our side.
BETHANY HAMILTON