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Speech is how we convey our thoughts. Literature is how we convey our civilization." Captain Hank Bracker — Hank Bracker

It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.5 — Jonathan Haidt

Let's be honest, the fact that Michael [Gove] announced very late in the process this morning that he was going to put his name forward, showed how much he had wrestled with this. — Nicky Morgan

Life is one long process of getting tired. — Samuel Butler

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus. — Donella Meadows

The living have never shown me how to live. — George Santayana

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine. — Fernando Pessoa

Success is actually a short race - a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over. — Gary Keller

Most of the words we use in history and everyday speech are like mental depth charges. As they descend [through our consciousness] and detonate, their resonant power is unleashed, showering our understanding with fragments of accumulated meaning and association. — James Axtell

Names are masks, they get in the way. — Matthew Woodring Stover

It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and I were doing back then. You can't get too far away from an acoustic guitar — Kenny Loggins

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. — Stanley Tucci