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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Speaker (15 December 1900)
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Remarks in Arlington, Virginia (25 September 1987)
I’m totally at home on the stage. That’s where I live. That’s where I was born. That’s where I’m safe.
Michael Jackson1958–2009
I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
Michael Jackson1958–2009Press statement (21 July 2003), quoted in “Jackson attacks music piracy bill” in BBC News (22 July 2003)
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
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This is the true joy in life⁠—being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), p. xxxi
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Socrates470–399 BC
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
Every positive value has its price in negative terms. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Speech on the sixth article of charge in the impeachment of Warren Hastings (5 May 1789), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume the Tenth (1899), p. 306
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a want and a grief,
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923)In context