"There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm."

-- Joseph Addison

#Religious Quotes #Men Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.”
“Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.”

Source : "Davos: Quiet Optimism Rises, Angelina Who?, and a Bonus to Giving Idea" by Cameron Sinclair, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2009.
“As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.”
“The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.”
“Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.”
“Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring.”
“The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.”

Source : "The World's Great Speeches". Book edited by Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, 1958.
“The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.”

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