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Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Author : George Eliot

I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of – we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

Author : Thomas Merton

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Author : Oscar Wilde

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Author : Samuel Adams

The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Author : Pablo Picasso

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

I’ve experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

Author : John Elway

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Author : George Eliot

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Author : H. L. Mencken

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

God doesn’t believe in the easy way.

Author : James Agee

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Author : Khalil Gibran

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Author : Blaise Pascal

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Author : Marcel Proust

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

Author : S. E. Hinton

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Author : Socrates

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

Author : Kurt Vonnegut

Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.