Hannah Arendt quote
A quotation from Hannah Arendt
> The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
**Hannah Arendt** (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
_Life of the Mind_ […]
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A quotation from The Bible
> Lord, who may enter your Temple?
> Who may worship on Zion, your sacred hill?
> Those who obey God in everything
> and always do what is right,
> whose words are true and sincere,
> and who do not slander others.
> They do no wrong to their friends
> nor spread […]
LORENZO: How every fool can play upon the word! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.
— The Merchant of Venice, III, v
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Would you mind not standing on my chest? My hat's on fire.
— The Doctor, in “The Androids of Tara”
#DoctorWho #quote #quotation
A quotation from Confucius
> Heaven sends down its net of crime; —
> Devouring insects, who weary and confuse men’s minds,
> Ignorant, oppressive, negligent,
> Breeders of confusion, utterly perverse:
> These are the men employed to tranquilize our country.
>
> 天降罪罟、
> 蟊賊內訌、
> 昏椓靡共、
> 潰潰回遹、
> […]
"Poetry must be read to be poetry. It may be that one reader is all that I deserve. If this is so, I want that reader to be you."
William Saroyan
1939
#poetry #read #1930s #quote #quotes #quotation
A quotation from John Adams
> We have now, it seems a National Bible Society, to propagate King James Bible, through all Nations. Would it not be better, to apply these pious Subscriptions, to purify Christendom from the corruptions of Christianity; than to propagate those Corruptions in Europe […]
A quotation from Joseph Addison
> When Men are easy in their Circumstances, they are naturally Enemies to Innovations.
**Joseph Addison** (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1716-05-16), _The Freeholder_ , No. 42
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A quotation from Russell Shorto
> Death is _the_ event in life. It is our chief organizing principle. It’s why we rush and why we dawdle, why we butter up our bosses and fawn over our children, why we like both fast cars and fading flowers, why we write poetry, why sex thrills us. It’s why we […]
A quotation from Wallace Stegner
> You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a […]
“Would you like a jelly baby?”
“It is true, then; the Evil One eats babies!”
— The Doctor and Leela, in “The Face of Evil”
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LADY MACBETH: We fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.
— Macbeth, I, vii
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A quotation from Ben Edlund
> THE TICK: And isn’t sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean, all of you get is one trick, rational thinking. But when you’re good and crazy, oohoo-hoo-hoo-hoo, the sky’s the limit!
**Ben Edlund** (b. 1968) American cartoonist, writer, producer
_The […]
A quotation from Garry Wills
> This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets.
**Garry Wills** (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian
_The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power_ , ch. 18 (1981)
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A quotation from Mark Twain
> A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch-digging.
**Mark Twain** (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Dictation (1907-07-30)
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More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/69430/
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OTHELLO: Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
— Othello, III, iii
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Everything that happens in life has a scientific explanation — if you look for it.
— The Doctor, in “The Daemons”
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“There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.” — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
#JohnSteinbeck #Steinbeck #Quote #Quotation #QOTD #Habit #ComfortZone #Familiarity
Justice is love on legs, spilling over into the public sphere Cornel West
#nokings #protest #boston #massachusetts #quote #quotes #quotation
Oh, those are my subconscious thoughts. I shouldn't listen to them too hard if I were you; I'm not all that proud of some of them.
— The Doctor, in “The Time Monster”
#DoctorWho #quote #quotation
JULIET: I must hear from thee every day in the hour,
For in a minute there are many days.
— Romeo and Juliet, III, v
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“The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.” — James Thurber, "On The Brink of Was," The New Yorker (01958-12-07)
#JamesThurber #Quotation #Quote #QOTD #Art…
A quotation from Samuel Johnson
> To put every man in possession of his own time, and rescue the day from the succession of usurpers, is beyond my power, and beyond my hope. Yet perhaps, some stop might be put to this unmerciful persecution, if all would seriously reflect, that whoever pays a […]
A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
> The doctrine of eternal pain is my trouble with this Christian religion. I reject it on account of its infinite heartlessness.
**Robert Green Ingersoll** (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1884-01-20), “Orthodoxy,” Tabor Opera House […]
“You haven't won the game yet, Morgaine.”
“I could always defeat you at chess, Merlin.”
“Who said anything about playing chess? I've been playing poker. And I have an Ace up my sleeve...”
— The Doctor and Morgaine, in “Battlefield”
#DoctorWho #quote #quotation
LADY ANNE: O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!
— Richard III, I, ii
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
> I think the gist of the matter is that a saint can live without politeness, and indeed that politeness is incompatible with a saintly character. But the man who is always to be sincere must be free from spite and envy and malice and pettiness. Most of us have […]
A quotation from Montaigne
> There is another kind of “glory”: conceiving too high an opinion of our worth. This is an undeserved feeling by which we value ourselves, and that makes us think ourselves different than we are, just as the passion of love lends beauties and graces to the object it […]
A quotation from Eric Hoffer
> The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
**Eric Hoffer** (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
_Passionate State of Mind_ , Aphorism 280 (1955)
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More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/82849/
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A quotation from Josh Billings
> It iz one ov the hardest things on earth for a man to learn,—that he plays a third rate game ov whist.
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> [It is one of the hardest things on earth for a man to learn — that he plays a third-rate game of whist.]
**Josh Billings** (1818-1885) American humorist […]
