What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor’s lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren’t old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
If I’d have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It’s a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
We cannot choose one desktop over the other – Gnome or KDE – because there’s users for both code bases.
Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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