"Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display."

-- Marcus Aurelius

#Running Quotes #Men Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.”
“Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.”
“The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.”
“Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.”
“Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.”
“Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.”
“It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.”
“If you go to the city of Washington, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of congress, and mis-representatives of the masses claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.”

Source : Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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