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It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact. — Henry Charles Carey

The fruitfulness of our life depends in large measure on our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility. All he asks of any act he performs is that it be his act. If it is performed by him, it must be good. All words spoken by him must be infallible. The car he has just bought is the best for its price, for no other reason than that he is the one who has bought it. He seeks no other fruit than this, and therefore he generally gets no other. — Thomas Merton

I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me.
Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on the other hand people grow old with rather greater frequency. — Theodore Dalrymple

His features made him look striking, and I wondered if that was actually his personality. — Binta Userkaf

Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that." — Carol Friedman

What does it profit man if he allows a nonentity to make him look irrelevant just because he wants to indirectly have him become a life member of the nonentity club? No man can make you less valuable except you enter into agreement with such man. Not all birds with wings have the mastery of soaring high.... — Bayode Ojo

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers. — Masanobu Fukuoka

Reputation is what people think we are; character is what God and the holy angels know we are. — Warren W. Wiersbe

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea. — Homer

I sign every autograph I can for kids because I remember myself at that age. I think it's ridiculous that some guys won't sign for a kid. — Jim Thome

Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There's no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you ever thought you'd want to return. — John Corey Whaley

I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms. — Brenda Perlin

Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry. — Frank E. Gaebelein

It is narual for enemy to attack on the weaker side of the adversary. — Chanakya