All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796
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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbNature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCI doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518The purest joy is to live without disguise, unconstrained by the ties of a grave reputation.
—Al-Hariri, c. 1108The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCBe courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969