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If a man is ambitious for power, he can have no better supporters than the poor: They are not worried about their own possessions, since they have none, and whatever will put something in their pockets is right and proper in their eyes." (Jugurthine War 86.3) Sallust
A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself. Leo Tolstoy
Singaporeans seemed generally quite loathe to discuss these more intimate policies of government with a curious foreign visitor who was more than twice as tall as the average human, and who sweated slowly but continuously, like and aged cheese. William Gibson
Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and considerate of her feelings, trying to make her good qualities understood, and to conquer the diffidence which prevented them from being more apparent; giving her advice, consolation, and encouragement. Jane Austen
Dorothy Day quote: "God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them"
God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them Dorothy Day
but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it. It's easier just to sit down ot go to sleep. They say you don't feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and... George R. R. Martin
John Gardner quote: "He was saner than anyone --had fallen out of the world of..."
He was saner than anyone --had fallen out of the world of illusion: love, interesting work, hope for the future. John Gardner
Albert Einstein quote: "Imagination is more imortant than Knowledge"
Imagination is more imortant than Knowledge Albert Einstein
Paul Eluard quote: "I cannot be knownBetter than you know me"
I cannot be knownBetter than you know me Paul Eluard
No one can become a new man except by entering the Church, and becoming a member of the body of Christ. It is impossible to become a new man as a solitary individual. The new man means more than the individual believer after he has been justified and sanctified. It means the Church, the Body of Christ, in fact it means Christ himself. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room. Germaine Greer
There is something in that, I know there is, because it does not sound too sweet; it is not like such words as Liberty, Excitement, Enjoyment; delightful sounds truly; but no more than sounds for me; and so hollow and fleeting that it is mere waste of time to listen to them. Charlotte Bronte
Meg Cabot quote: "That does not mean he is smarter than I am. I mean, can he..."
That does not mean he is smarter than I am. I mean, can he draw a cat ? Meg Cabot
Haruki Murakami quote: "I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than..."
I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than yourealize. Haruki Murakami
In the talcum on the floor around him he could see the imprints of his mother's feet. She had moved from side to side, propelled by an over-eager partner, perhaps one of the Japanese officers to whom she was teaching to tango. Jim tried out the dance steps himself, which seemed far more violent than any tango he had ever seen, and managed to fall and cut his hand on the broken mirror. J. G. Ballard

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