wisdom

"..at home I was messing around all winter long with a painting; it was a coast, but painted so primitive. Then I said: you must see the sea in front of you, every day, you have to live with it, otherw…"

"Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell."

"The Islamic claim to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is even more transparently fraudulent... Any secularist willing to uphold this claim as historical? Or otherwise ready to show the courage of his con…"

"My father's simple message - it's not an anti-Muslim message, it's anti-terror message, you know, we have ISIS and they're running in rampant around the world and we have to do something about it."

"density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as …"

"There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence , guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring…"

"Why was it never good news that put problems into perspective? Why did it always take another set of problems?"

"No nation ever had so bad a neighbour as Germany has had in France for the last 400 years; bad in all manner of ways; insolent, rapacious, insatiable, unappeasable, continually aggressive. ... Germany…"

"A wise economy- without avaricious meanness, or dirty rapacity will in a few years render you decently independent."

"Every business faces its challenges…It's not realistic to think otherwise. If nothing else, it brings out the best in the team. It's important at that point to be open with the consumer and educate th…"

"An unprecedented growth in the number of elderly ;"

"We're finally becoming conscious of what we're actually looking for, of what this other, more fulfilling experience really is. When we grasp it fully, we'll have attained the First Insight...."

"My good friends, things cannot go on well in England, nor ever will until everything shall be in common, when there shall be neither vassal nor lord, and all distinctions levelled; when the lords shal…"

"It is only he, possessed of all sagely qualities that can exist under heaven, who shows himself quick in apprehension, clear in discernment, of far-reaching intelligence, and all-embracing knowledge, …"

"I took part in all battles. If sometimes I was not there, the operation was likewise carried out under my orders."

"STRUCTURE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CONTENT IN THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION. It is the same as saying "the medium is the message."

"Autonomy is not "total self-sufficiency" but "the entitlement of each interactive entity to determine for itself what its contributions to others will be and, likewise, to determine for itself what us…"

"I want to convey to the Spaniards a message of hope. ETA is a great nation; Spain, sorry, it's a great nation."

"But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money — booked a sailing…"

"It coursed through the thronged warriors; it seemed a tangible thing, communicating itself from one to another; it was almost as though one could see it, but one could not see it, only its effects. I …"