"My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me."

-- Lord Byron

#Comfort Quotes #Teeth Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.”
“The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which permits the complicated nature of the world to be blamed on something which is called accidental and thus permits him to abstract a domain in which simple laws can be found.”

Source : Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.283, Springer Science & Business Media
“A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle of interests and goals. This leads to a mixture of rivalry, hostility, and collective sentiment, a constant readiness to close ranks against a common enemy - anyone who breaks the rules.”
“My friend, God wants to throw a beam of light on your path today.”
“Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.”
“All we are asked to bear we can bear.”
“I think itâ€™s important for me to play well and set the tone.”
“To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them, prior to all our conceptualizations and definitions.”

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