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Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,…

— Edward Said

Tell everything to your spiritual father, and the Lord will have mercy on you and you will escape delusion. But if you…

— Silouan the Athonite

Adults use children in order to survive because now, we have this [kids] tissue that can allow us to live longer. And…

— Greg Gutfeld

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was…

— Jean Genet

The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of…

— Diana Athill

Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate…

— Jonas Mekas

Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in…

— George Orwell

He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting…

— Ayn Rand

The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential…

— John Galt

In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Passion with another cannot sustain a relationship. Passion exists in the moment, and this moment passes into a memory. In order to…

— Barbara Rose

Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are.…

— Lee L Jampolsky

The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Everything that I think that I need to do, is all in order to propel me to some place, that when I…

— Esther Hicks

I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and…

— John Quincy Adams

I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it…

— Herman Melville

A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain,…

— Henry David Thoreau

That Mujib [Rahiman] had been arrested I found out at eight in the morning, when I left. How did I take it?…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like…

— Jacob M. Appel

In order to be truthful We must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth. We must also receive…

— Michael Leunig

In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this,…

— Elie Wiesel

When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any…

— Clarence Darrow

People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the…

— Abraham Maslow

We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing…

— Seth Lloyd

One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening -…

— Daniel Handler

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream…

— Sheridan Morley

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the…

— Isak Dinesen

The CEO's job is always about leadership. It's about leadership in a vision, in terms of where you're going, it's about making…

— Reid Hoffman

In our Revolution we believe that we have broken the chain of a consumer economy based on imports, and we are free…

— Siad Barre

The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't…

— Sarah Louise Delany

Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expressed…

— Pope John Paul II

The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based…

— Frank Zappa

Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully. The more you're…

— Steve Pavlina

In order to handle emotional pain I cry. I vent. I zone out in front of the TV to escape. Then, after…

— Trista Sutter

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No…

— Jeanette Winterson

[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made…

— Gretchen Rubin

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism…

— Thomas Jefferson