"At any decade in your life, our results suggest that there is a 40 to 50 percent chance of having a life crisis. There's a slight increase with age and in general women tend to experience more than men - but that could be because they may be more open to admitting that they have had a hard time."

“The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself.”

“The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.”

Source : John Mortimer (1994). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”, Viking Press

“I had this urge to play the game of football because so many people said I couldn't do it.”

“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”

“Before I begin speaking, there is something I would like to say.”

Source : "The Book of Informatics". Book by John G. Gammack, Valerie Hobbs, and Diarmuid Pigott, p. 5, 2011.

“The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.”

“We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.”

“Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.”