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If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends.
We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Kissing … in the old days was very beautiful. Actually the two people doing it were barely touching sometimes, in order to not push her face out of shape. You were doing it for the audience to see what in their minds they always think a kiss is. Now you see a couple of people start chewing on each other.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.
We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.
Roosevelt, a false witness; Truman, a merchant; Eisenhower, I am told that on the golf links he is better [with a putter] than he is with the long shots and that doesn't surprise me; Kennedy, the style of a hairdresser's assistant-he combed his way through problems; Johnson, a truck driver or a stevedore-or a legionnaire.
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
