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Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.

You have two choices in life: Live the life you want or live the life of acceptance.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft - focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had...

What this all goes to show is that nonsense remains nonsense, even when talked by world-famous scientists. What serves to obscure the illogicality of such statements is the fact that they are made by...

Campaign contributions don't buy votes. What they buy is access.

Living in someone's prayers is better than living in this mean world.Voyage to Eternity

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and...

I'd rather listen to what you think of yourself, than what the whole world has to say about you.

To see Sridevi making tea in Boney Kapoor's kitchen was a huge letdown. I won't forgive him because he brought the angel down from heaven to the kitchen of his apartment.

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

Where we love is home

For all our mythologizing, the margins can be painful and some people are there because they have no choice.

There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

I smiled at him. Not even Wyatt would have known how to be this honorable when talking about a girl that had hurt him.

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.

Mimicry reassures the weak, and the envious fool takes the risk as often as the visionary who mocks the error and leaves the man alone.

I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18. I didn't show up there to please anyone. After I was accepted, I...

Be open-minded to see those that you can't trust. Be closed-minded and keep ones within your trust.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Don't win someone you're willing to lose

His grin split even wider. "I'd love the chance to prove you wrong." And when he did, she'd know what he was thinking. She'd know how much he despised the woman who claimed to be a Vetter and allowed...

Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?

Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting,...

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn't appear for more than a hundred years.

Why is it that medical strictures and recommendations so often work in favor of food processors and against food producers? Why, for example, do we so strongly favor the pasteurization of milk to...

Far too often the 'things' that men define as success do little more than successfully destroy the lives of the very men who achieve those 'things.' And while I must admit that there is an authentic...

There's nothing like a friendly handshake to establish social cooperation, but the bonobo handshake takes erotic politics to a whole new level.