"Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too; we cannot simply treat life as a psychedelic trip through a series of novel sensations."

-- Tim Harford

#People Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Whatever happens, happens.”
“I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places I'm really no good to you.”
“I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.”
“A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.”

Source : "Senate impeachment trial: questions and answers, day two". www.cnn.com. January 23, 1999.
“Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.”
“He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America ... The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world.”

Source : Maiden speech in the Senate. "Congressional Record", Senate, 56th Congress, 1st session, pp. 704-712, en.wikisource.org. January 09, 1900.
“That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.”

Source : Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.653, Vintage
“Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign”

Source : Speech in House of Commons, 17 May 1628

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