"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Freedom Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“I'm a darned good listener.”
“But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.”
“So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.”

Source : Franz Liszt, Marie Sayn-Wittgenstein Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (Prinzessin zu) (1953). “The letters of Franz Liszt to Marie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein”
“No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!”

Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.116, Litres
“Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will discover another culture through an American writer rather read a writer from that culture.”

Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com
“Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.”
“WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”
“When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people. And now he was gone.”

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