Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.
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Carroll Bryant
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
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Confucius
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
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Sarah Addison Allen
That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.
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Anonymous
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
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Euripides
More Quotes By William F. Buckley
In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.
We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only our apples were bitten a long time ago, and we ate them too.
Time plays no role in the life of one man–the subtle consciousness of it floating past me is more than enough. Years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds–what does it matter? Floating by, it rubs against my skin, face, and hair–wearing me down, yet polishing me...
