"The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly."

-- Thomas a Kempis

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“Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.”
“I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.”
“Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,â€ he once wrote. â€œPretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.”
“In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.”

Source : Letter to Vladimir Stassov on October 18, 1872. "Moussorgsky". Book by Oskar von Riesemann, translated by Paul England, p. 107, 1929.
“It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.”
“I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.”

Source : Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee

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