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A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.
Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.
If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.
Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!
Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.
When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.
India to someone who lives in Lahore is like Queens to someone who lives in Lower Manhattan - it's not far away, and yet it doesn't exist.
If there were a being in the world whose eyes could look into other people's hearts, very few men or women would be able to face up to it.
I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon
Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.
The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.
We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.
Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.
As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.
The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
Q: Prove God doesn’t exist. A: That’s a tough one. Show me how it’s done by proving Zeus and Apollo don’t exist, and I’ll use your method.
I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.
I killed a guy, maybe two. Possibly three. I have one power. Not two or three or four. Just one. I met a girl, and she changed everything.
My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.
Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.
Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.
I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.
There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
I agonize over things like this - the order of things, section titles, all this architectural sort of stuff. Takes me years to figure out.
Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.