"Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Children Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.”
“But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.”
“I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.”
“If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves but for others, since joy for ourselves depends upon our joy in others and theirs in us.”
“My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.”
“You don't need to do anything to be loved. Just be who you know you are. It's the only way to experience real love.”
“Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.”
“The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.”

Source : Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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