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for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.
As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.
The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation.
The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.
The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.
There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.
I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great
Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.
Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married...
Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!
In this world, there is life and death; he who misses the life shall never die anymore, because he is already a dead!
Do the things you want to do; if you don't, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!
During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!
Educate the children in your country well, and then sit and watch the rise of your country like a Sun on the horizon!
In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!
Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!
Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.
The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!
When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!
When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.
When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!
Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!
Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!
If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.
When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.
The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.
I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.
I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.
Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?
My interest as a regional party is to support, or try and support, whichever party fulfils the aspirations of Odisha.
My father did not groom us for politics. I took the plunge because I wanted to carry on his work in his constituency.
We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.