"The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate."

-- Washington Allston

#Envy Quotes #Common Quotes #Praise Quotes

“There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.”
“I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.”

Source : "Super classical quantum mechanics: the best interpretation of non relativistic quantum mechanics". American Journal of Physics 69, p. 413-422, 2001.
“There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think, for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it. We were all kind of doing a similar kind of stand up, and I started to see some original voices come out of Boston.”
“The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.”
“Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.”
“I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2008). “The Heretic Queen: A Novel”, p.61, Broadway Books
“Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in...”
“A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.”

Source : James Harrington, J. G. A. Pocock (1992). “Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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