"If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible."

-- Blaise Pascal

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“The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.”
“The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesnâ€™t have to be another country. It can be the past insteadâ€”the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks. This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments. What are the rest of us, after all, but sub-human aborigines?”
“I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.”
“The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.”
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
“Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.”
“It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.”

Source : Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.16, Rodale
“Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.”

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