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Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.
Surround yourself with positive people and situations, and avoid negativity.
There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs.
A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.
I think of the inner voice as a compass or as a wayshower to guide our path.
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.
Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.
And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.
This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.
Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp.
No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.
Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.
What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?
Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.
If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.
I've got great dogs. I've got a great family. I mean, I couldn't be happier.
The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
I think exercise is critical to my writing and an essential way to recharge.
Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.
French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.
Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook.
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.
in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm.