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Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. ↗

— John Strachan

#arrangement #attachment #cannot #colonies #commercial

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it? ↗

— Lee Strasberg

#dream #dream it #greatness #how #possibility

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless. ↗

— Iain Pears

#philosophy #power #public-service #tyranny #virtue

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom. ↗

— Peter Straub

#boredom #everything #expire #i #out

I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one. ↗

— Leo Strauss

#cannot #i #know #only #which

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#bring #called #cannot #forth #i

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#cannot #itself #kindle #long #may

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#change #complain #does #habits #man

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#audience #best #brings #cannot #closer

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. ↗