#co

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts. ↗

— Philip Roth

#audacity #authority #beauty #belief #contest

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it. ↗

— Murray Rothbard

#crushed #defeated #expands #glories #state

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#claims #defend #duty #esteem #gratitude

By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left. ↗

— Warren De la Rue

#age #area #consumed #diagram #done

I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#love #relationships #age

Sometimes dirty can come off really cute or come off 'I don't even want you to touch me.' ↗

— Kelly Rowland

#cute #dirty #even #i #me

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world. ↗

— Karl Rove

#dealing #different #fundamentally #parties #two

I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media. ↗

— Karl Rove

#communications #conservatives #creation #either #enterprise

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets. ↗

— Bill Schuette

#cops #more #most #neighborhood #offenders

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

#ask #condition #felt #happiness #most