"Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries."

-- Alexander Hamilton

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“Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.”
“Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.”

Source : "Advice to Grandparents: Hold the Advice" by Karin Kasdin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2012.
“Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.”
“In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.”
“The reason you go to university is to be taught, is to learn how to think more clearly, to call into question the ideas that you came with and think about whether or not they are the ideas you will always want to hold. A university education at its best is a time of confusion and questioning, a time to learn how to think clearly about the values and principles that guide one's life. Of course, it's also a time to acquire the skills needed for jobs in the "real world," but the part about becoming an adult with ideals and integrity is also important.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.”

Source : Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz
“In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.”

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