#dec

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#ask #certain #decide #folly #fun

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#deception #folly #hear #human #i

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#being deceived #deceived #fear #quest #truth

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea! ↗

— William Booth

#deceived #look #men #rock #sea

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. ↗

— John Erskine

#exercise #helps #human #information #make

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#decent #decent standard #depends #destiny #living

When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it. ↗

— Julius Erving

#ball #both #chance #change #committed

Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#certain #declare #declared #defined #dogma

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#believe #bobby #bobby kennedy #death #decency

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium. ↗

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#born #centuries #civilizations #decades #ideologies