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Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#allowing #appetites #brings #death #deprives

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader. ↗

— James Gould Cozzens

#intelligence

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards. ↗

— Rasmus Lerdorf

#becomes #caring #i #standard #standards

To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. ↗

— Barack Obama

#obama #unity #world-unity #leadership

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him. ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

#englishman #him #speaking #way

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. ↗

— John Denham

#evaporate #into #language #out #poetry

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. ↗

— Dean Inge

#clearly #consecrated #death #eternal #eternal world

As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. ↗

— Tony DiTerlizzi

#leadership #leadership

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#been #nothing #philosopher #said #strange

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place. ↗

— John G. Diefenbaker

#head #liberals #make #never #nor