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The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.
Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.
As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.
I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.
I was never in politics before I contested the Lok Sabha by-elections after my father's death.
It always amazes me how when we’re sure we’ve lost something for good, it winds up finding us.
Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.
I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.
I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?
Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)
Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.
By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.
It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we're still soaked in it.
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?
When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.
America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.
In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.