"The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals."

-- Harold Laski

#Thinking Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Society Quotes

“No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.”

Source : William Penn (1849). “No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse, Shewing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ ...”, p.277
“Taylor Swift is pretty hip...She seems pretty honest. I think thatâ€™s hip. Sheâ€™s promoting knowing yourself, and thatâ€™s the best idol.”
“If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.”
“Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?" ... Unconsciously, he clenched his fist over his ring. "I live." "Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more -- with one word you will make me weep.”
“Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I’m talking about, I knew Janis.”
“I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.”
“At Baalbek Nuts I bought pistachios from the Lebanese owners, who answered my request for their thoughts on the war with the typically Lebanese response of no problem. It's a lie, as we all knew.”
“Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.”

Source : Sir James Mackintosh (1836). “Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.411

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