The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism (Murray N. Rothbard)
Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than our fathers were. They are two exercises that thwart and hinder one another in their vigor. Lechery weakens our stomach on the one side; and on the other sobriety renders us more spruce and amorous for the exercise of love
Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than our fathers were. They are two exercises that thwart and hinder one another in their vigor. Lechery weakens our stomach on the one side; and on the other sobriety renders us more spruce and amorous for the exercise of love (Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays)
But I didn’t ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn’t even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh
But I didn’t ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn’t even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh (Carol Burnett)
I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person
I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person (Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet)
Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance
Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance (Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret)
Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice
Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice (Mark Batterson, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars)
Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all
Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all (Amit Kalantri)
‘Catcher in the Rye.’ I feel like any brooding teen loves that book
‘Catcher in the Rye.’ I feel like any brooding teen loves that book (Justice Smith)
Graduates fared better if, during college, they did any one of these: developed a relationship with a mentor; took on a project that lasted a semester or more; did a job or internship directly connected to their chosen field; or became deeply involved in a campus organization or activity (as opposed to minimally involved in a range of things)
Graduates fared better if, during college, they did any one of these: developed a relationship with a mentor; took on a project that lasted a semester or more; did a job or internship directly connected to their chosen field; or became deeply involved in a campus organization or activity (as opposed to minimally involved in a range of things) (Frank Bruni)
And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan.And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hidIts bruises in the earth, but crawled no further,Showed me its feet, the feet of many men,And the fresh-severed head of it, my head
And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan.And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hidIts bruises in the earth, but crawled no further,Showed me its feet, the feet of many men,And the fresh-severed head of it, my head (Wilfred Owen, The Poems Of Wilfred Owen)