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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity. - Marcus Garvey
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. - Terry Pratchett
“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin
The thought of suicide is a great consolation; by means of it one gets through many a dark night. - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. - Winston Churchill
“To be is to be perceived” (“Esse est percipi”)– Bishop George Berkeley
In my opinion to be is to perceive and to be perceived.. there are many things we fail to perceive that are there. But, this is something that could spark a whole philosophical debate
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. - Lao Tzu
“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. - Abraham Lincoln
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them. - H. P. Lovecraft
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one. - William Congreve
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. - Nelson Mandela
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. - Jean Paul
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. - James Thurber
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”
― John F. Kennedy
He was white and shaken, like a dry martini. - P. G. Wodehouse
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Theodor W. Adorno
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. - George Eliot
“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. - John F. Kennedy
“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
― Stendhal, Love