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Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.
A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]
You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.
Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.
There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.
When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.
White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.
Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.
Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.
Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.
I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.
The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.
I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.
And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.
Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.
Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.
When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.
You're bruised, as ugly as one of your Cyclops, and I can barely stand to look at you." - Duncan to Madelyne.
I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.
I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.
All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)
Miracles and magic pervade the things that I've written, but yet there are no miracles and there is no magic.
Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.
Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.
It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.
To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.
Disney's Aulani Resort has really developed the southwest coast of Oahu and led to it getting more attention.
Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.
It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.