"Delay is preferable to error."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“For all true love is grounded on esteem.”

Source : "The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, Volume 2". Book by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham ("To His Mistress", p. 138), 1770.
“The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.”
“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”

Source : Philip Sidney (1901). “The Sidneys of Penshurst”
“Be kind to the living.”
“There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life, and Scotland is a place where this sort of revelation often approaches. Staring into a Scottish landscape, I have often asked myself why--in spite of all appearances--bracken, rocks, man and sea are at some level one.”

Source : Neal Ascherson (2014). “Stone Voices: The Search For Scotland”, p.26, Granta Books
“My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that problem with the elevator last year. I don't care what anyone says, that wasn't my fault. when a giant scorpion the size of an Irish wolfhound is tearing its way through the roof of your elevator car, you get real willing to take desperate measures.”
“Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment."”

Source : John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books
“That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.”

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