"She wavers, she hesitates: in a word, she is a woman."

-- Jean Racine

“When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."”
“Don't want anything. Then you get everything.”
“Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.”
“Here then is a great #â€Ž truth . In the #â€Ž pain , the #â€Ž agony , and the #â€Ž heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a #â€Ž refiner 's #â€Ž fire , and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our #â€Ž faith #â€Ž bright , #â€Ž intact , and #â€Ž strong .”
“The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.”

Source : "The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas". Book by Robert W. McChesney, May 1, 2008.
“There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it. A people risen, run their race, and die either of themselves or in the hands of another, who, succeeding to their power, take possession of their place, and upon their monuments write new names; such is history.”

Source : "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ".
“If your friend's friend's friend (whom you may not have even met) is obese, a smoker or a zealot of some kind then it is a lot more likely that you will be too.”
“It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking, not whether a thing is good or bad, noxious or beneficial, but of what kind it is? And how much is there of it? Quality and Quantity were then first recognised as the primary features to be observed in scientific inquiry.”

Source : James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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