"It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit."

-- C. V. Wedgwood

#Greatness Quotes #Men Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Life should be built on the conservation of energy.”
“You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.”
“We had a few calls saying election precincts had closed early. But it turned out that the callers were in the wrong places. Some people went to the old locations of a church, rather than the new one. We called the polling locations as well as the church pastor and they verified they were still open.”
“I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.”
“Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (1882). “Natural Law, Or, The Science of Justice: A Treatise on Natural Law, Natural Justice, Natural Rights, Natural Liberty, and Natural Society : Showing that All Legislation Whatsoever is an Absurdity, a Usurpation, and a Crime”
“Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.”
“One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.”
“There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.”

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