It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. "
Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
Well, you know what grown-ups are,' said Dinah. 'They don't think the same way as we do. I expect when we grow up, we shall think like them - but let's hope we remember what it was like to think in the way children do, and understand the boys and the girls that are growing up when we're men and women.
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
And, well, that's my story," I said. "I'm sorry that it's so, you know. Retarded.
Iggy. This is not a democracy," I said,(. . . )"It's a Maxocracy.
There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.
What is this Chocho business?' Will muttered to himself. But his friends overheard the comment. 'It's a term of great respect,' they chorused, and he glared at them. 'Oh, shut up,' he said.
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.
More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.
"I am not just another notch on your belt?" she asked him. "Of course not. " he said as he put a mark on the chalkboard.
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
It’s a promise ring,” he said solemnly. “The lady at the store said it’s what you give the girl you love. It means I want to marry you someday.
But what is your true self is the God within you who became you, and when you realize that you are not yourself but you are he, then you discover that you and he are one, just as Jesus said. Jesus was a great master, and he had great teachings for the world, and when it says in the Bible, "All those who received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God. "
Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions. ” Ben shot Hi a stern look. “No running commentary. ” “Your loss,” Hi said. “To the pimp ride!
You're not going,"he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yurs passes, you are not going to Idris. " Clary felt as if he'd slapped her. She had thought he'd be pleased. She'd run all the way from the hospital to the Institute to tell him, and here he was standing in the entryway glaring at her with a look of grim death. "But you're going.