“To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Category: nature
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When music fails to agree to the
“When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.”
— Maria Callas
Author: Maria Callas
Category: music
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True Americanism is opposed utterly to any
“True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.”
— Henry Cabot Lodge
Author: Henry Cabot Lodge
Category: religion
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Poetry is the universal language which the
“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
— William Hazlitt
Author: William Hazlitt
Category: nature
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The primary victims of Katrina, those who
“The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.”
— Jonathan Kozol
Author: Jonathan Kozol
Category: society
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God employs several translators; some pieces are
“God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.”
— John Donne
Author: John Donne
Category: war
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The greatest gift is a passion for
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
Category: knowledge
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In justice to human society it may
“In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.”
— Ezra Stiles
Author: Ezra Stiles
Category: wisdom
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed
“We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.”
— Cornel West
Author: Cornel West
Category: power
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I did not want to reject religion
“I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.”
— Luke Ford
Author: Luke Ford
Category: religion
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Men cannot count, they do not know
“Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.”
— Gertrude Stein
Author: Gertrude Stein
Category: women
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