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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.
I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.
Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
I'm very concerned about the countries bordering Russia. But let's stay off that stuff.
The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.
The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.
I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.
Men fall in love through their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears, through words.
We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.
When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.
Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.
All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.
I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular
That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'
I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary.
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.