"Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us."

-- John Quincy Adams

#Men Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“What's everybody's business is nobody's business ...”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2012). “A White Heron and Other Stories”, p.67, Courier Corporation
“A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.”

Source : Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973
“Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others.”
“A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.”
“Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.”
“Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.”
“I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.”
“We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.”

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