"But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win"

-- John Steinbeck

#Brother Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes

“Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.”

Source : "Super Bowl and Super Tuesday". www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2008.
“We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?”
“Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.”
“Bad men do what good men only dream.”

Source : Gavin Ewart (2011). “Selected Poems 1933-1993”, p.43, Faber & Faber
“What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?”

Source : Thomas Malory (2009). “Le MORTE DARTHUR: the Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table [volume 2 Of 4]”, p.52, Lulu.com
“Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.”

Source : 1937 Mr Bonaparte. Golden Boy, act1, sc.2.
“If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.”
“We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work thatâ€™s finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbour whoâ€™s crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes itâ€™s even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. Thatâ€™s enough for me, or it isnâ€™t enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life.”

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