in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
We haven't been here much, if that isn't an understatement. We've added a few more songs since then.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.
We have become a grandmother.
What I have most at heart is, that some method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our language.
He had no knowledge and had no desire to acquire any; wherein he conformed to his genius whose engaging fragility he forbore to overload; his instinct fortunately telling him that it was better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride. Vain men delight in telling what honours have been done them, what great company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess that these honours were more than their due, and such as their friends would not believe if they had not been told: whereas a man truly proud thinks the honours below his merit, and scorns to boast.
When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything. And all rites are of this kind.
First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep.