Quote #15973
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens...
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a...
Quote #20750
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage...
Quote #24091
No really great man ever thought himself so.
Quote #24013
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and...
Quote #21207
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed...
Quote #13709
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a...
Quote #8077
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to...
Quote #17926
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.