The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
Every reformation ruins somebody.
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it. so true as of Egypt.
The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.
It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.
between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.
It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.
If I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.
We're living in an age of genocide. . . . And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program. . . . of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide. . . . [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.