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A kiss may ruin a human life.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
?UnattributedOften credited to Charles Darwin
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XXI.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. Patton1885–1945
If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
John Wayne1907–1979
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Dr. James Currie (28 January 1786) Lipscomb & Bergh 18:ii
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung1875–1961Mysterium Coniunctionis, from The Collected Works of C. G. Jung (1966)
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus55–120
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Carl Jung1875–1961The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1934), p. 32 (1981 edition)