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Everything is game except what makes the soul better or worse.

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.

The Theory of the Leisure Class

People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.

Great men of action never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job.

In discussing the unlimited grace of the Ganga, Eck cites a common Indian saying that "no child is too dirty to be embraced by its mother". Indeed mother Ganga embraces everyone and everything that is put into her (or that she enters).

Ganges in Hinduism

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

The more I see of him the more confused I'm getting to which is his best knock.

Sachin Tendulkar

They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered.

When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.

William Stanley Jevons

To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?

Islam is something we can't afford any more in the Netherlands. I want the fascist Koran banned. We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands. That means no more mosques, no more Islamic schools, no more imams... Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims.

Mother Nature is a serial killer. No one's better. More creative. Like all serial killers, she can't help but the urge to want to get caught. But what good are all those brilliant crimes if no one takes the credit? So she leaves crumbs. Now the hard part, while you spent decades in school, is seeing the crumbs for the clues they are. Sometimes the thing you thought was the most brutal aspect of the virus, turns out to be the chink in its armor. And she loves disguising her weaknesses as strengths. She's a bitch.

World War Z (film)

I am so sick and tired of everyone with their complaints about PTSD, depression. Everyone wants their hand held, and a check – a government check. What are you, the only generation that had PTSD? The only generation that's depressed? I'm sick of it. I can't take the celebration of weakness and depression. See, I was raised a little differently. I was raised to fight weakness. I was raised to fight pain. I was raised to fight depression. Not to give into it. Not to cave into it and cry like a little baby in bed. "Boo-hoo-hoo. Boo-hoo-hoo." Everyone has depression in their life. Everyone has sickness and sadness and disease. And loss of relatives. And loss of career. Everyone has depression in their life.

We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke"; but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march."

Adlai Stevenson

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

Cooperation is difficult in the absence of communication.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

If Hitler had not thrown the Communists into camps in 1933, there would have been civil war and bloodshed. The Communists would have revolted against the legally-elected government. The greatest danger of civil war in Germany came in 1932, when it was clearly a choice between Communism and National Socialism. So Paul von Hindenburg and the other conservative bourgeois elements chose Hitler. So did I, and I would do it again if a choice between Communism and Nazism arose.

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