"We all are imbued with the love of praise."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I love the way business works, when there's a crisis or a scandal, there is blood on the floor. Somebody pays, people are held accountable, that's just not politics.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to your favourite tune. Dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what's happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting – or just lie back and stare at the sky.”
“Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.”
“If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.”

Source : "It's curtains for Okrent" by Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.
“Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if there is a use of language that is, or can be, feminine. Some, like myself, think that language is itself neither male nor female; it is creatively expansive enough to be of use to those who have the wit and art to wrest from it their own significance. Even the dread patriarchs have not found a way to 'own' language any more than they have found a way to 'own' earth (though many seem to believe that both are possible).”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press
“Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.”
“If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.”
“This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.”

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