"JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Kings Quotes #Utterance Quotes #Amusement Quotes

“I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.”
“There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.257
“The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.”
“For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.”
“Every time you achieve a dream, you must set another one. Because that will strengthen your path. Or you will become dead, because if you have no dreams, you have no life.”
“The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another”
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
“The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.”

Source : "There’s a Fire on the Mountain" by Mickey Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

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