#ex

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#another #beyond #could #equal #extinction

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#anything #builds #certainly #done #gives

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#diary #downstairs #exercise #goes #jackie

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode. ↗

— Chanakya

#alone #bad #born #consequences #dies

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort. ↗

— Chanakya

#done #effort #excellent #him #intends

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#cheerful #consistently #express #future #human

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#back #efficiently #express #few #generations

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law. ↗

— Iris Chang

#back #born #china #chinese #civil

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be. ↗

— Robert Collier

#exactly #hard #prosperous #see #up