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Unlock Inspiration: James A. Baldwin Quotes

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  1. The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
  2. You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
  3. When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
  4. When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
  5. Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
  6. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
  7. To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
  8. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
  9. Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
  10. There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
  11. There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
  12. The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
  13. People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
  14. The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.
  15. The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
  16. The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
  17. The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
  18. The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
  19. The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
  20. The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
  21. The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
  22. The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
  23. Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.
  24. People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
  25. The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.
  26. The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
  27. There is a “sanctity” involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
  28. Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
  29. No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
  30. No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
  31. Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
  32. Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
  33. People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
  34. Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
  35. Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
  36. Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
  37. American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
  38. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
  39. Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
  40. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
  41. Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
  42. Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
  43. People can cry much easier than they can change.
  44. I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
  45. Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
  46. Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.
  47. I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
  48. Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
  49. I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
  50. I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
  51. If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
  52. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
  53. It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
  54. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
  55. Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
  56. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
  57. Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
  58. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
  59. I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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Tiger Woods Quotes: Inspiring Words to Fuel Your Success

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  1. It will always be the ball and me.
  2. And I don’t cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.
  3. You can always become better.
  4. The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I’m ready to start my season at Augusta.
  5. The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.
  6. My main focus is on my game.
  7. Michael left because of the Bulls’ management, not because he’d lost his love of playing the game.
  8. In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.
  9. If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.
  10. If money titles meant anything, I’d play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it’s been a good year.
  11. I’m not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I’m trying.
  12. I’m aware if I’m playing at my best I’m tough to beat. And I enjoy that.
  13. I’m addicted. I’m addicted to golf.
  14. Green and black go well together, don’t they?
  15. Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.
  16. I want to be what I’ve always wanted to be: dominant.
  17. As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.
  18. Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
  19. For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
  20. Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
  21. Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
  22. I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
  23. I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don’t know when that day will be.
  24. I don’t get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.
  25. I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for – getting paid for doing what you love.
  26. I love to play golf, and that’s my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.
  27. I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.
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Uncover Inspiring Bob Woodward Quotes

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  1. Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon’s numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
  2. The central dilemma in journalism is that you don’t know what you don’t know.
  3. The biggest rap on me is that I don’t find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It’s not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
  4. Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I’d still be on the City Desk.
  5. Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it’s generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
  6. The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
  7. People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I’m a Washington insider, and you know, that’s quite silly. What does that even mean?
  8. Nixon’s grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
  9. Nixon’s attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.
  10. Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
  11. Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
  12. The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
  13. Lawyers didn’t seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
  14. Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
  15. It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
  16. It was accountability that Nixon feared.
  17. Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
  18. Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
  19. Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn’t be doing.
  20. If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media’s too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.
  21. When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon’s own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it’s all too clear the horror of what went on.
  22. We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
  23. We need to police ourselves in the media.
  24. Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
  25. There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.
  26. When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
  27. The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon’s lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
  28. There’s hostility to lying, and there should be.
  29. There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
  30. There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
  31. The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
  32. The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.
  33. The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
  34. The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
  35. Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
  36. Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
  37. Clinton… believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.
  38. I don’t think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.
  39. I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
  40. I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I’ve been told by first-hand sources.
  41. I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.
  42. I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
  43. I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.
  44. Deep Throat’s information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
  45. I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
  46. Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
  47. Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
  48. Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.
  49. Any suggestion that I’m writing about political operatives because I’m interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
  50. After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon’s tapes.
  51. A reporter’s ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
  52. Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
  53. I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
  54. I have found people don’t want to be told. That they can figure it out.
  55. I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don’t know. The source you didn’t go to. The phone call you didn’t return.
  56. I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they’re not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
  57. When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
  58. I’m not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn’t know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
  59. I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I’m confused about the information I get from the media.
  60. If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it’s really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.
  61. I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they’re watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.
  62. I don’t think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
  63. I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon’s Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
  64. I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.
  65. I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
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Discover Inspiring Virginia Woolf Quotes

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  1. Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
  2. There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
  3. The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
  4. The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
  5. The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
  6. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
  7. The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
  8. The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
  9. The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
  10. These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
  11. There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
  12. This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
  13. This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
  14. Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
  15. My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?
  16. Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
  17. The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
  18. Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
  19. This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
  20. The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
  21. Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
  22. Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
  23. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
  24. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
  25. One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.
  26. One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
  27. Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.
  28. That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
  29. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
  30. Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
  31. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
  32. One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
  33. On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
  34. Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
  35. If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
  36. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
  37. To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
  38. To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
  39. We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
  40. When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
  41. If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‘our’ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
  42. Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?
  43. Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
  44. Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
  45. Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
  46. Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
  47. You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
  48. We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
  49. Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
  50. It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
  51. It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
  52. It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
  53. Language is wine upon the lips.
  54. Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
  55. Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
  56. If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
  57. Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
  58. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
  59. It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
  60. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
  61. You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.
  62. It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
  63. It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
  64. It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
  65. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
  66. Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
  67. Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
  68. I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
  69. I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.
  70. I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
  71. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
  72. Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
  73. I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
  74. I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.
  75. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
  76. Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
  77. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
  78. A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
  79. A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
  80. A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
  81. Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
  82. Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
  83. As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
  84. Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
  85. For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
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Discover Inspiring William Wordsworth Quotes

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  1. Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
  2. That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
  3. Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
  4. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
  5. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
  6. Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
  7. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
  8. One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
  9. Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
  10. The child is father of the man.
  11. In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
  12. I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
  13. How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
  14. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
  15. Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
  16. The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
  17. With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
  18. Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
  19. When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.
  20. What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
  21. What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
  22. That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
  23. To begin, begin.
  24. The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
  25. The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
  26. The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
  27. The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
  28. The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
  29. The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
  30. For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
  31. To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
  32. Faith is a passionate intuition.
  33. Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
  34. But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
  35. A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
  36. Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
  37. Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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Discover Inspiring Steve Wozniak Quotes

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  1. Atari is a very sad story.
  2. I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.
  3. I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!
  4. I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
  5. For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
  6. Every dream I’ve ever had in life has come true ten times over.
  7. Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you’re doing because you believe it’s right.
  8. But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous or it’s a company.
  9. At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
  10. Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He’s always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
  11. I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.
  12. In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
  13. Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
  14. My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
  15. You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that’s one of the biggest honors of my life.
  16. Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
  17. What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
  18. The way I did it, every job was A+.
  19. The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn’t have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.
  20. The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
  21. Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
  22. Steve Jobs didn’t really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don’t deny that.
  23. If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
  24. Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
  25. I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.
  26. My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
  27. It’s just not right that so many things don’t work when they should. I don’t think that will change for a long time.
  28. It would be nice to design a real briefcase – you open it up and it’s your computer but it also stores your books.
  29. Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
  30. In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
  31. All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
  32. I’m surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.
  33. I’d learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw – shapes of characters and things.
  34. Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I’d put myself in the latter category. But I’d never call myself a normal designer of anything.
  35. A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
  36. Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.
  37. After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.
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Unlock Wisdom: Top Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Quotes!

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  1. Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
  2. It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
  3. Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
  4. One can not impede scientific progress.
  5. Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
  6. Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
  7. Our nation is today a powerful nation.
  8. People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites – let’s say the sites around Iran – where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.
  9. The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
  10. The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.
  11. The United States’ administrations… must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.
  12. The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
  13. Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
  14. Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
  15. We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.
  16. We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
  17. We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
  18. Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can’t.
  19. Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.
  20. Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
  21. For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other’s rights.
  22. For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
  23. We’ve never been anti-Semitic.
  24. In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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Discover Inspiring Isabelle Adjani Quotes

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  1. You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.
  2. I think that we all carry the divine within us.
  3. Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
  4. But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.
  5. I believe in angels, so it’s simple.
  6. I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.
  7. I do not want to work to correspond to an image.
  8. I don’t think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.
  9. I have no fear of being less beautiful, I’ve always been afraid of not being beautiful.
  10. Passion surprises. One doesn’t search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.
  11. You protect your being when you love yourself better. That’s the secret.
  12. Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.
  13. To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don’t have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.
  14. To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.
  15. There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.
  16. There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
  17. Passion is all but soft, it’s not tender, it’s violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
  18. One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.
  19. One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that’s taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
  20. I’ve suffered too much to hide my feelings.
  21. There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.
  22. I’ve learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.
  23. One can be emptied out and be filled up.
  24. If I had not passed through trial – through passion, one could say – through these years so painful and so rich, I don’t believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.
  25. In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don’t keep them.
  26. Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.
  27. My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.
  28. Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.
  29. One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.
  30. I’m in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.
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Unlock Wisdom: Best Aeschylus Quotes!

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  1. Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
  2. By Time and Age full many things are taught.
  3. From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
  4. For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
  5. For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
  6. For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness.
  7. For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
  8. For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one’s friends.
  9. For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
  10. For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
  11. I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
  12. For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
  13. Excessive fear is always powerless.
  14. Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.
  15. Don’t you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
  16. Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might.
  17. Death is softer by far than tyranny.
  18. Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
  19. Call no man happy till he is dead.
  20. For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
  21. I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
  22. By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
  23. It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
  24. It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
  25. In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
  26. In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
  27. If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
  28. If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
  29. I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.
  30. I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
  31. I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
  32. God always strives together with those who strive.
  33. I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
  34. His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
  35. He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
  36. He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
  37. Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
  38. God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
  39. God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
  40. God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
  41. I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
  42. What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?
  43. The man who does ill must suffer ill.
  44. The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
  45. The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
  46. The wisest of the wise may err.
  47. The words of truth are simple.
  48. There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
  49. There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy’s hand, when you hate mutually.
  50. There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
  51. There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
  52. Time as he grows old teaches all things.
  53. To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.
  54. Too few rejoice at a friend’s good fortune.
  55. Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
  56. The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
  57. When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
  58. A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
  59. Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
  60. You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
  61. Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
  62. Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
  63. We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
  64. Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
  65. We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
  66. When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
  67. When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
  68. What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
  69. What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
  70. What exists outside is a man’s concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
  71. Time brings all things to pass.
  72. Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime’s length?
  73. But time growing old teaches all things.
  74. It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
  75. It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
  76. It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
  77. It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
  78. It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
  79. It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
  80. It is always in season for old men to learn.
  81. Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
  82. Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
  83. The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
  84. And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
  85. To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
  86. Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
  87. Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter – Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes – A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
  88. It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
  89. Only when a man’s life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
  90. Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
  91. And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
  92. Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
  93. Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.
  94. Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
  95. Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
  96. Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
  97. Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
  98. My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
  99. Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
  100. Know not to revere human things too much.
  101. Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
  102. Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
  103. Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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Theodor Adorno Quotes

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  1. Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
  2. No emancipation without that of society.
  3. Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
  4. Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
  5. Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
  6. Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
  7. Normality is death.
  8. The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
  9. No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
  10. Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
  11. Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
  12. Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
  13. Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
  14. Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
  15. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
  16. Intelligence is a moral category.
  17. None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
  18. The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
  19. The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
  20. The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
  21. Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
  22. The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
  23. The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
  24. The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
  25. Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
  26. The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
  27. Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
  28. The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
  29. The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
  30. The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
  31. The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
  32. The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
  33. In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
  34. The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
  35. Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
  36. Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
  37. Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
  38. Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
  39. Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
  40. Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
  41. But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
  42. For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
  43. Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
  44. Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
  45. Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
  46. An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
  47. All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
  48. Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
  49. A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
  50. A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
  51. Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
  52. History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
  53. The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
  54. In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
  55. In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
  56. In many people it is already an impertinence to say ‘I’.
  57. In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
  58. If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one’s own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
  59. Fascism is itself less ‘ideological’, in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
  60. Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
  61. In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
  62. He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
  63. He who matures early lives in anticipation.
  64. He who integrates is lost.
  65. He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
  66. He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.
  67. Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
  68. If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
  69. Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
  70. There is no love that is not an echo.
  71. The whole is the false.
  72. Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
  73. To say ‘we’ and mean ‘I’ is one of the most recondite insults.
  74. Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
  75. True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
  76. Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
  77. When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
  78. Work while you work, play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
  79. The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
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Discover Inspiring Joseph Addison Quotes

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  1. To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
  2. To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
  3. To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
  4. That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
  5. The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
  6. Jesters do often prove prophets.
  7. Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
  8. To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
  9. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
  10. The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
  11. The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
  12. The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
  13. The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
  14. The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
  15. The post of honour is a private station.
  16. Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
  17. The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
  18. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
  19. The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
  20. The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
  21. The woman that deliberates is lost.
  22. Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
  23. There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
  24. There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.
  25. There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
  26. There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
  27. There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
  28. Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
  29. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
  30. Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
  31. Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
  32. Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
  33. If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
  34. If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
  35. If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
  36. I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
  37. I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
  38. I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: “What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.”
  39. He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
  40. Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
  41. Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
  42. It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
  43. Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
  44. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
  45. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
  46. Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
  47. An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
  48. Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
  49. Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
  50. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
  51. A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
  52. A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
  53. A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
  54. A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
  55. A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
  56. A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
  57. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
  58. Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
  59. We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
  60. What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
  61. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
  62. Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
  63. Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
  64. With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
  65. When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
  66. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
  67. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
  68. Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
  69. Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
  70. Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin!
  71. One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
  72. True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
  73. Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
  74. No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
  75. Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
  76. Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
  77. Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
  78. Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
  79. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
  80. Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
  81. Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
  82. The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
  83. Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
  84. Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Unlock Inspiration with 10 Powerful Scott Adams Quotes

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  1. We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
  2. Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
  3. Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
  4. Normal people… believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
  5. Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
  6. You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
  7. There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
  8. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
  9. Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
  10. Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
  11. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
  12. The only risk of failure is promotion.
  13. The best things in life are silly.
  14. The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
  15. You don’t have to be a “person of influence” to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.
  16. The longer you work here, diverse it gets.
  17. Let’s form proactive synergy restructuring teams.
  18. One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
  19. Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
  20. Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
  21. Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
  22. Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
  23. Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
  24. I get mail; therefore I am.
  25. I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
  26. If a job’s worth doing, it’s too hard.
  27. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
  28. If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it’s done.
  29. In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn’t have to ride around with jerks.
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Discover Inspiring Gerry Adams Quotes

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  1. Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I’m talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I’ve hugged trees in every part of this little island.
  2. The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
  3. We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
  4. We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
  5. When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
  6. Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.
  7. Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
  8. At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
  9. Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.
  10. Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
  11. Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
  12. The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.
  13. The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
  14. The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
  15. The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
  16. The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.
  17. But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda – no-one else is going to do that.
  18. Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
  19. One man’s transparency is another’s humiliation.
  20. Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
  21. It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
  22. In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.
  23. In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
  24. Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
  25. For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
  26. But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.
  27. The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
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Discover Quotable Wisdom from Douglas Adams

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  1. I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.
  2. The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
  3. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
  4. This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
  5. The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
  6. Life is wasted on the living.
  7. The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
  8. The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
  9. The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
  10. The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
  11. Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.
  12. I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
  13. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
  14. It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
  15. Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
  16. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
  17. In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
  18. If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ’em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
  19. It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
  20. I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.
  21. It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
  22. I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
  23. Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
  24. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
  25. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
  26. He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
  27. He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.
  28. For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
  29. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
  30. Time is bunk.
  31. To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
  32. We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.
  33. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
  34. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
  35. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
  36. Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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Discover Inspiring Ansel Adams Quotes

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  1. Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
  2. I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
  3. Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
  4. It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
  5. It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
  6. Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
  7. In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
  8. A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
  9. There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
  10. These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago… I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
  11. When I’m ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
  12. Some photographers take reality… and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
  13. Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
  14. Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
  15. Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
  16. A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
  17. Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
  18. When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
  19. The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
  20. A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
  21. We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
  22. In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
  23. Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
  24. To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
  25. No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
  26. Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
  27. You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
  28. The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.
  29. Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
  30. The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
  31. A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
  32. There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
  33. There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
  34. There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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