"Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent."

Society, Talent, People, Wit

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"Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent."

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"Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?"

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Society, Economy, Consent, Education, Awareness

"Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Society, Prison, Love, Compassion, Regulation

"Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?"

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Society, Identity, Belonging, Truth, Modernity

"Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Society, Poverty, Wealth, Perspective, Gratitude

"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."

Stephen Hawking, English Physicist

Society, Celebrity, Recognition, Privacy, Life

"A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Society, Church, Abuse, Victims, Media

"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Society, Praise, Criticism, Irony, Judgment

"The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness."

Henry A. Kissinger, American Statesman

Society, Loneliness, Nixon

"I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America."

Max Baucus, American Politician

Society, America, Help, Saying, Senate

"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

Society, Energy, People, World, Connection

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"Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way."

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"To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes."

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"Memory always obeys the commands of the heart."

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"It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit."

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"Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity."

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"It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it."

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"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future."

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"Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?"

"Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?"

"Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough."

"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."

"A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse."

"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."

"The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness."

"I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America."

"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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"Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way."

"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."

"Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech."

"Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors."

"To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes."

"Memory always obeys the commands of the heart."

"It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit."

"Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity."

"It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it."

"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future."