"People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking."

-- Josh Billings

#Loss Quotes #Talking Quotes #People Quotes

“The world should commit Israel to withdraw from our territories and stop occupation and aggression, and allow the Palestinian people to establish their independent state.”
“I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?”
“Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.”

Source : "Twelve Virtues Of Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, yudkowsky.net. 2006.
“If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.”
“Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.”

Source : Richard Owen Cambridge (1751). “The Scribleriad: An Heroic Poem. In Six Books”
“I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!”
“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

Source : Remarks in the House, as quoted in "Congressional Record", vol. 11, p. 1611, February 15, 1881.
“Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.”

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