- “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”- William Blake
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”- Simone Weil
“Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us so far. But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.” - Peter Bonfield
“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.” - Gail Sheehy
“If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.” - Edward Wilmot Blyden
“Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.” - Tillie Olsen
“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.” - Florence King
“The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.” - Lyman Bryson
“I often think it's comical
How Nature always does contrive
That every boy and every gal
That's born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative!” - W. S. Gilbert
“The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.” - Samuel Butler
“Every man desires to live long but no man would be old.” -Jonathan Swift
“Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.”- Max Beerbohm
“When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.”- James Goldsmith
“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”- Oscar Wilde
“Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.” - Evelyn Waugh
“Whatever happens in government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.” - Charles Frankel
“The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.”- Laurence J. Peter
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.”- G. K. Chesterton
"An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth".- Mark Twain
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