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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

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• Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Football

• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Women
  • Courage
  • End

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • House
  • Team
  • Best

• Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Anchor

• The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Science
  • Church
  • Pretend

• And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Earth
  • Hand

• I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• Tender is the nightFor a broken heartWho will dry your eyesWhen it falls apart

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Broken

• If you have ever done any security work – and it did not involve the concept of 'network of trust' – it wasn't security work, it was – masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Work
  • Done
  • Trust

• Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Work
  • Growth

• There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."

  

  Vaginal Davis
  • Light
  • Advice
  • Given

• Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic.

  

  Molly Sims
  • Magic
  • Earrings
  • Necklaces

• Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Happiness
  • Personality
  • Circumstances

• If you ask me, it’s perfectly natural that when we feel so much, when our entire world begins to revolve around someone else, that’s when we turn the most into ourselves. We’re sure that no one else can possibly understand what it’s like to love so deeply, aren’t we?

  

  Bella Andre
  • Revolve
  • Understand
  • Love

• If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

  

  Will Durant
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