"All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb."

-- Joseph Joubert

#People Quotes #Dumb Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together,”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.138, Jazzybee Verlag
“Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.”
“People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.”
“You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?”
“Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.”

Source : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.424
“The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.”
“If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life. If we believe our life is defined by narrow limits, we've suddenly made those beliefs real.”
“After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.”

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