"They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is."

-- Thomas More

#Men Quotes #Justice Quotes #Gold Quotes

“Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.”
“Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... Deep individualism cannot exist except in relation to the highest authority. No inner discipline can operate without a charismatic institution, nor can such an institution survive without that supreme authority from a relation to whom self-confidence derives. Without an authority deeply installed, there is no foundation for individuality. Self-confidence thus expresses submission to supreme authority.”
“The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”
“If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you”

Source : "Valerie Bertinelli Enjoying Career Revival After Losing Weight". www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2007.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
“The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.”
“as roads go, the road home is as good as any.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2014). “The Summer Of The Danes”, p.258, Head of Zeus
“One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.”

Source : Liberty Hyde Bailey (1903). “The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature”

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