"Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person."

-- Jeremy Collier

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“Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.”
“Here's what I've learned about eating healthy when you're busy: It's all about preparation. Make your snacks on Sunday, and you will be good to go until Thursday or so.”
“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”

Source : Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster
“It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.”
“I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it...”
“We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.”

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