#thou

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. ↗

— Albert Camus

#asking #charm #clear #getting #question

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. ↗

— James Madison

#both #farce #government #information #means

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#evokes #exist #mystery #which #without

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution. ↗

— Bill Maher

#appear #been #constitution #does #experience

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

#aspire #get #need #new #present

I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush. ↗

— Bill Maher

#george #george bush #his #i #little

I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier. ↗

— John Mahoney

#any #displays #dog #dogs #done

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous. ↗

— Maimonides

#convinced #end #man #preparatory #reach

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#ignoring #objections #philosophy #without

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#go #heroes #how #how far #know