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"Ordinary People ... are so used to be dazled with Riches, that they pay as much Deference to the Understanding of a Man of an Estate, as of a Man of Learning; and are very hardly brought to...

"Does it mean, if you don’t understand something, and the community of physicists don’t understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here’s a list of things...

"A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny." Joseph Brodsky Submitted...

"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin." Joseph Conrad Submitted by Quonation |Category: Government Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination,...

"I know a lot of wonderful men married to pills, and I know a lot of pills married to wonderful women. So one shouldn't judge that way." Barbara Bush Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "To us, family means putting your...

"Macho doesn't prove mucho." Zsa Zsa Gabor Submitted by Quonation |Category: Men Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished." Zsa Zsa Gabor Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "I never hate a man enough to...

"For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from...

"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be." Jose Ortega Y Gasset Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "Love is that splendid triggering of...

"Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure." Joseph De Maistre Submitted by Quonation...

"You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done." José Bergamín Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hypocrisy Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ...