"The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure."

-- John Ruskin

#Race Quotes #Effort Quotes #Praise Quotes

“In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.”
“I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes”
“Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.”
“The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.”
“Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.”
“How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.”
“It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.”
“It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”

Source : Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.10, Vintage

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