Gnaeus Pompeius Quotes & Sayings

Two chimpanzees were observed maltreating a chicken: One would extend some food to the fowl, encouraging it to approach; whereupon the other would thrust at it with a piece of wire it had concealed behind its back. The chicken would retreat but soon allow itself to approach once again
and be beaten once again. Here is a fine combination of behavior sometimes thought to be uniquely human: cooperation, planning a future course of action, deception and cruelty. — Carl Sagan

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me
Virtue alone is true nobility! — Juvenal

The choice is not, Reich argues, between a governed and an ungoverned market, but between a market governed by laws favoring monopolistic companies and one governed by those favoring small business. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that's insufficient in your life. — Greg Plitt

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material. — Bela Fleck

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world. — Charlotte Bronte

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed. — Barack Obama

Live so fully and so brilliantly that your pain diminishes in your aliveness. — Bryant McGill