We will create a civilisation of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
John BarlowFor books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Amy LowellOur batsmen have to get the runs so that our bowlers can get the 20 wickets
Rahul DravidNo good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be
Walter LandorWe are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn RandA wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.
George GrenvilleAmerica is a land where men govern, but women rule.
John BrownThe making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Joseph McCabeA belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
Vannevar BushThe greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Julius Charles HareIf he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
William GodwinPaula Radcliffe has thrown all her eggs mentally into the marathon basket
Graham BeecroftAn Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Robert SouthThe government in Saigon is a travesty.
George W BallDesire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario AndrettiCivilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn RandWith all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
Clarence DarrowSteve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.
Jeff ThomsonThe most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Milton FriedmanMan... hath by nature a power
.... to preserve his property - that is, his life, liberty, and estate - against the injuries and attempts of other men.
John LockeI can honestly say at this moment in time I do not have an interest in women or related things.
Johnny GreenwoodThe Queen mentioned that some of us smelled as though we had been drinking (after being honoured at Buckingham Palace)
Josh LewseyThe first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
Charles DickensSeriously, I have to play a tournament next week in Newport. I have no more rackets now [after throwing his rackets in the crowd]
Michael LlodraA small number of individuals are giving the idea there is a big rift in the Labour party [understatement of the year]
Ann ClwydI'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel [on retirement]
Andre AgassiEvery moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Norman MailerRich men are too influential at Downing Street.
Jack DromeyConscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorPeople talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes JuniorWhat would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be.
Douglas JerroldNo one will believe this, but me and Demi only had one argument during the first three months we were seeing each other and since then we haven't had one.
Ashton KutcherThis decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon]
Maria SharapovaAntitrust decrees are not written unlike leases for apartments, on a month-to-month basis.
Harold GreeneI was deeply saddened by the death of Pope John Paul II.
Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself.
[on Pope John Paul II]
Kofi AnnanWhen one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry MillerThe immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women
Karl KrausGreat ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar GracianPeople can use their accounts and carry on making their mortgage payments in the usual way [on Northern Rock crisis]
Alistair DarlingVictor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
TacitusProtecting national security is the Government's top priority.
Tony McNultyThe advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
Fred AllenEvery country has the government it deserves.
Joseph De MaistrePeace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
Herbert HooverWomen need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place
Billy CrystalFrom the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.
Julia Margaret CameronIt is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John GardnerEvery advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
David OgilvyThe right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThe chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Thomas Huxley
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