"People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws."

-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Lying Quotes #Winter Quotes #Hands Quotes

“To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.”
“I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too”

Source : "R.v.R. : Being an Account of the Last Years and the Death of One Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn". Book by Hendrik Willem van Loon, 1930.
“If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.”
“One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.”
“Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'"”
“Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism.”

Source : "In Defense Of Obama’s Apologizing". www.ilanamercer.com. May 21, 2010.
“In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.”
“She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, â€˜All are shadows!â€”all are passing!â€”all is past!”

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