"The world is a den of crazies."

-- Tommaso Campanella

#World Quotes #Dens Quotes

“May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.”
“Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.”

Source : "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge". Book by William Poundstone, 1988.
“Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.”
“History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization about this may lead us to a defence position that conceals that democracy is an extraordinarily demanding way of rule. It must constantly find new ways to revitalize, to reach out to people and make them active. Dictatorships offers a machinery of obedience, closed and externally well-oiled. Democracy is based on fairness, openness and pulsating life. Therefore it must constantly be won again.”
“The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayersâ€™ money. It is that many agencies perform functions that are not Federal responsibility. The founders delegated to the Government only strictly defined authority in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution. Search the entire Constitution, and you will find no authorization for Congress to subsidize the arts, finance and regulate education or invest tax revenues in energy research.”
“And I know Iâ€™ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. â€œAs the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,â€ the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,â€ let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.â€ â€œTodd?â€ Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. â€œIâ€™m sorry,â€ I whisper to her. â€œIâ€™m so sorry.â€ Weâ€™ve run right into a trap. Weâ€™ve run right off the end of the world. â€œWelcome,â€ says the Mayor,â€ to the New Prentisstown.”
“I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.”

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