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Windows are the eyes of the soulless — Thomas Ligotti

Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam. — Edward Kennedy

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis. — Frank Auerbach

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings. — Ai Weiwei

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for. — Eliot Paulina Sumner

Leon reads aloud from an article in the Reader's Digest about voting to select a national flower. Leon votes for dandelions. Joseph and Clyde vote for grass. — Milton Rokeach

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. — Jonathan Miller

He made the rest of us look complacent, lazy, indulgent, and apathetic, in the same way that vegans' conscientious diets can't help but indict carnivores' as callous. The impulse is to write such people off as self-righteous and shrill (which, conveniently, they often are) so that you can stop thinking about slaughterhouses and keep eating scrapple. — Tim Kreider

think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. Walt Whitman — Bertrand Russell

People might think it lonely living on my own nearly all the time, but I never found it lonely. I always had plenty to think about, and anyway maybe I'm not so good on people. — Winston Graham

Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can. — Naomi Oreskes

There's no better teacher for writing than reading ... Get a library card. That's the best investment. — Alisa Valdes

So this was love. Two life-forms in mutual reliance. I was meant to be thinking I was watching weakness, something to scorn, but I wasn't thinking that at all. — Matt Haig

I believe in (the American) people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen. I think there's evil in the world. But I think that at the end of the day, if we work hard, and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that, the world gets a little better each time. That's what this presidency is trying to be about. And I see that in the young people i work with. This is not just drama-obama. This is what I really believe. — Barack Obama