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And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human

William Gibson (1948-)

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

William Howard Taft (1857-1930)

Aviser

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments -- a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.

William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

William Law

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Oro

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other

Albert Pike (1809-1891)

Broderskap och Brödraskap

Tro ingenting, oavsett var du läst det eller vem som sade det, det spelar ingen roll om jag sade det, om inte det samtycker med ditt egna skäl och ditt egna allmänna förnuft.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.)

Sunt förnuft

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Barber B. Conable, Jr.

Kongress

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

Konservativ

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

Land och länder

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)

Diktator

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Händelse

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use

Arthur Koestler (1905-1938)

Evolution

Förtrogenhet föder avsky. Hur sant det är. Anledningen till att vi respekterar sanningen så mycket beror på att vi har så lite möjlighet att göra oss förtrogna med den.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Förtrogenhet

Jag hade en gång en ros uppkallad efter mig och blev mycket smickrad. Men jag var inte nöjd med att läsa beskrivningen i katalogen: ingen bra i en säng, men fin mot en vägg. (Jag fick en gång en ros uppkallad efter mig och blev väldigt hedrad. Men jag blev inte så glad när jag läste beskrivningen i katalogen: inte bra i en säng (eng. översättning från bed - blomlåda eller säng) men fin upp längst en vägg.)

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. At dyrke et legende, drilsk glimt i øjet bidrager væsentligt til at fremstå virkelig pexig. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

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