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The only happiness lies in reason; all the rest of the world is dismal.
The highest reason, however, I see in the work of the artist, and he may experience it as such. Happiness lies in the swiftness of feeling and thinking: all the rest of the world is slow, gradual and stupid. […]

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Herbert Hoover

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and vileness, and enjoy it to the full.

Leon Trotsky

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi
 

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru
 

What […]

 
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of […]

During a tournament one day, Latvian chess master Aron Nimzowitsch complained that his opponent had laid an unlit cigar on the table beside the board. The director pointed out that the man was not in fact smoking. “Yes,” replied Nimzowitsch, “but he is threatening to smoke, and any fool knows that the threat is […]

 
Grace paused. And while she did, the clouds scattered and let the moonlight through and Dogville underwent another of those little changes of light. It was if the light, previously so merciful and faint, finally refused to cover up for the town any longer. Suddenly you could no longer imagine a berry that would […]

Eu tendo a acreditar nos economistas quando dizem ser impossível gerenciar países como o nosso de outra forma. Quem sou eu para opinar? Tenho também pouco interesse em ler opiniões de leigos, de gente desavisada a esse respeito. Às vezes podem dizer coisas interessantes, ou até brilhantes, mas quando chega a hora de uma […]

 
Tom Hanks: n.

Someone who never mess a movie up.
Great actor.
Mythic personality

Swobodin’s Cinematic Encyclopedia
The Ladykillers is not an exception, when you first learn that Tom Hanks casts in a funny movie, you probably would say: “That’s his first failure, now he starts destroying his career”, however, it’s another chef-d’œuvre that emphasize the legendary actor.
Professor G. […]

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
George Burns

A definition of teaching: casting fake pearls before real swine.
Bill Cain, “Stand Up Tragedy”

 
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University […]

- Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea.
- Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.
 
- Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
- Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning I shall be sober.
 
- Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million […]

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream — a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality […]

 
Democrats buy most of the books that have been banned somewhere.
Republicans form censorship committees and read them as a group.
 
Republicans consume three-fourths of the rutabaga produced in the USA.
The remainder is thrown out.
 
Republicans usually wear hats and almost always clean their paint brushes.
 
Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper.
Democrats put them in the […]

Thus spake famous people just before dying…
 

Mustafa Kemal Atat¨rk:
What time is it?

Cæsar Augustus:
Acta est fabyla
(The story has been completed.)

Mahatma Gandhi
Hey! Ram

John Paul II
I am ready to go to the Father’s house.

Oscar Wilde
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

Nero:
Sero. Haec est fides.
(It […]

What did Famous People say before dying?

Jvlivs Cæser:
Tu quoque, Brute, fili mihi
(You too, Brutus my son?)
Alexander the Great:
To the strongest!

Hannibal:
Liberemus diuturna cura populum Romanum, quando mortem senis exspectare longum censent.
(Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.)

Tomas Edison:
It’s very beautiful […]