"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King."

-- Emily Dickinson

#Kings Quotes #Spring Quotes #Insanity Quotes

“Im hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt peoples feelings, but then Ill blow it 10 minutes later.”
“No one who shall invoke this Mother of Grace with devotion and perseverance can possibly perish forever.”
“We canâ€™t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young friends. We must join our voices with that blessed poet June Jordan and demonstrate that 'we are the ones weâ€™ve been waiting for.'”
“Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off.”
“For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'”
“Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri, Charles Lloyd (1876). “Philip”
“How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.30, Penguin
“Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything within it, arising from some primordial argument between the deity and nothing whatsoever. And then, by some inscrutable incandescent insight, Leibniz came to see that what is crucial in what he had written is the alternation between God and Nothingness. And for this, the numbers 0 and 1 suffice.”

Source : David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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