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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces  (Which Quotes) Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character  (Which Quotes) Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks  (Which Quotes) Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced  (Which Quotes) Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark  (Which Quotes) That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God  (Which Quotes) The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question  (Which Quotes) The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives  (Which Quotes) Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure  (Which Quotes) Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor  (Which Quotes) Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained  (Which Quotes) A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself  (Which Quotes) I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have  (Which Quotes) The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant  (Which Quotes) The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself  (Which Quotes) An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion  (Which Quotes) Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected  (Which Quotes) There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention  (Which Quotes) Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about  (Which Quotes) We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted  (Which Quotes) The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself  (Which Quotes) Being once chafed, he cannot Be reigned again to temperance; then he speaks What's in his heart, and that is there which looks With us to break his neck  (Which Quotes) Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners  (Which Quotes) For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love  (Which Quotes) If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence  (Which Quotes) O, he sits high in all the people's hearts: and that, which would appear offence in us, his countenance, like richest alchymy, will change to virtue and to worthiness  (Which Quotes) The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions  (Which Quotes) If I can fasten but one cup upon him, with that which he hath drunk tonight already, he'll be as full of quarrel and offense As my young mistress' dog  (Which Quotes) There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism  (Which Quotes) Within the U. S., The Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo  (Which Quotes)
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