"The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!"

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Pain Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Gains Quotes

“Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in Team of Rivals, he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.”

Source : "Obama-Clinton ticket for 2012" by Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 2, 2010.
“Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.”
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.”
“[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.”
“The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy â€“ and so do all of us, more than we imagine.”

Source : John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”
“Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information; and, till they have acquired all available information, cannot do anything but accept on authority the opinions of those better qualified.”
“Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits of time, and, by a few observations, to ascertain the history of this world, and the series of events which preceded the birth of the human race?”
“Heaven is equally distant everywhere.”

Source : Petronius Arbiter (1964). “The Satyricon of Petronius”

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