I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Author : Audrey Hepburn
It’s funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I’d get married.
Author : Regina King
I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.
Author : Paul Gascoigne
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
Author : Theodor Adorno
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Author : Mark Twain
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.