#less

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power. ↗

— Friedrich List

#alone #bad #better #everything #exertions

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#character #foundation #impossible #pretence #saps

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#completely #fortunate #good #had #happy

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#activities #believing #better #centered #fairness

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#creative #ego #expands #faculties #increases

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing. ↗

— Ludacris

#continue #definitely #doing #feeling #greatest

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. ↗

— Martin Luther

#am #diligently #explaining #gates #heart

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#artist #blessed #blessed be #child #does

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#art #codes #diffusion #discovery #doubtless

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part. ↗

— John Malkovich

#asleep #clueless #how #imagine #most