Today Quotes
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The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.Old Russian saying
[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.Voltaire, Candide
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.George Eliot
Loneliness is a strange gift.E. B. White
From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.Immanuel Kant
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?Joyce Carol Oates
Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds--and then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.Michael Crichton, Prey
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.Karl Popper