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No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful read more
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus read more
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from read more
The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float read more
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more read more
Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.
