"The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated."

-- Mark Van Doren

#Literature Quotes #World Quotes

“People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice. Today, I choose to persist without exception. No longer will I live in a dimension of distraction, my focus blown hither and yon like a leaf on a blustery day. I know the outcome I desire. I hold fast to my dreams. I stay the course. I do not quit.”
“There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.”

Source : William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”
“Sexism - you can't be sexy and intelligent. It's not allowed.”
“People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.”
“Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.”
“I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!”
“Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.”

Source : Ralph Cudworth (1820). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated”, p.322

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