#cult

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. ↗

— Titus Livius

#arduous #build #difficult #easy #fortune

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#because #candidates #conservative #culturally #liberal

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. ↗

— Maimonides

#applicable #between #considerable #difference #faculties

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#creative #critical #exist #faculty #highest

The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect. ↗

— Dick Morris

#difficult #hillary #like #likely #more

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#empires #exhausted #fallow #lie #long

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour. ↗

— Bill Murray

#difficult #honour #i #people #people say

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#culture #death #how #i #islamic

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#character #cultivated #happiness #like #moment

We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation. ↗

— Jodi Rell

#another day #cannot #day #decisions #difficult