“If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans or the Chinese or the Muslims. The reality is that we have caused our own problems. Whatever has happened has been caused by isolating ourselves or blaming others.”
-Fareed Zakaria
“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”
-Hunter S Thompson
“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
-Mignon McLaughlin
“It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.”
-Andy Rooney
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
-Douglas Adams
“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”
-Marilyn Monroe
“I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.”
-Katharine Hepburn
“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”
-Margaret Thatcher
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
“The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.”
-Bertolt Brecht
“A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.”
-Bryant H. McGill
“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”
-e. e. cummings
“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”
-Maya Angelou
“Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.”
-Robert Frost
“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.”
-Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.”
-Galileo Galilei
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" -Nietzsche
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