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I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. – Nikita Khrushchev, Speech in Yugoslavia, Aug. 24, 1963	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions— especially selfish ones. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites... – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. – R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. – Terry Pratchett	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek. – Bill Cosby, Time Flies	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing an anti-war book?… I say, "why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?" What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. – Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House 5	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The course of true love was never easy. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Everyone has a right to his own course of action. – Moliere	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness. – Aleister Crowley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. – Annie Dillard, "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. – Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman	added by anonymous 13 years ago
She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization. – Sylvia Levi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. – Ernest Hemingway	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. – Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death! – Patrick Henry	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. – John Dewey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis. – Abraham Myerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining. – Walter Lippmann	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance. – Abraham J. Heschel	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things. – Emily Dickinson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. – Frederika Bremer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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