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The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.
Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.
Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.
The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . .
Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .
The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.
All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.
The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species.
Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.
It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
When we damage the environment, we damage everything we depend on.
Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.
One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves
A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.
The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking.
I don't know everything; is the first statement of wanting to know
Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.
In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
A man is a failure who goes through life earning nothing but money.
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.
I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
Real women are fat. And thin. And neither. And both. And otherwise.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.