"Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence."

-- Gerolamo Cardano

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“I'm a big believer of having a vision board, so I have a vision board, and that's motivating because it shows me all the things I have accomplished and all the things I still want to accomplish.”
“a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.”
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
“Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?”

Source : Padgett Powell (2010). “The Interrogative Mood”, p.15, Profile Books
“I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We want, or wanted, to believe that without love we would disappear, that love, somehow, would save us that, yeah, if we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life. The Terror is, we know now, that even without love, life goes on... we just go on there is no mercy killing.”
“The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from Apr 19, 2013
“Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.”

Source : Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.141, Open Road Media

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