#ty

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. ↗

— Henry Adams

#effect #ends #killing #men #power

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches. ↗

— Jack Adams

#communications #i #office #out #typed

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. ↗

— James Randolph Adams

#advertising #beauty #because #designers #forget

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. ↗

— Voltaire

#born to be #devoured #eaten #eighty #flies

You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive. ↗

— Jack Gilbert

#death

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. ↗

— John Adams

#agent #choice #implies #intellectual #liberty

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#death #life #love #lovers #mortality

I'm pretty sure I'm not at war with myself. ↗

— Sandy Adams

#myself #pretty #sure #war

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#folly #honest #honesty #long #men

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. ↗

— Scott Adams

#general public #never #never underestimate #public #stupidity