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Man’s nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and retreats.
Blaise Pascal1623–1662
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings1818–1885
Man was made for action, and to promote by the exertion of his faculties such changes in the external circumstances both of himself and others, as may seem most favourable to the happiness of all.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement. The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.
Adam Smith1723–1790
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
MGMarquis de La GrangeOften credited to Saul Bellow
If you are gonna kick society in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
Keith Richardsborn 1943
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970“A Liberal Decalogue”, from “The Best Answer to Fanaticism: Liberalism”, New York Times Magazine (16/December/1951)
Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.
Rebecca West1892–1983A Train of Powder
The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we’ll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
Everything you want also wants you.
Jack Canfieldborn 1944
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
Jack Nicholsonborn 1937
So let us begin anew⁠—remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Joseph Fort Newton1876–1950Often credited to Isaac Newton