"Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed."

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Heart Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Errors Quotes

“If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of classroom prayer and Bible-reading?”
“America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.”

Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
“This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out,”

Source : "David Foster Wallace's Legendary Graduation Speech Is Now An Awesome Short Film". "This Is Water" Speech at Kenyon College, www.businessinsider.com. 2005.
“A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.”
“I want to express my closeness to the people of the Philippines who have been struck by a strong earthquake, and I invite you to pray for that dear nation, which in recent days has suffered different calamities.”
“Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.”
“Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and wide for ill-defined peacemaking duties. This policy has gutted the American military which now must be rebuilt.”
“I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They have a unique role in any civilised society and that requires appropriate and targeted government support.”

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