#use

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#pretext #self-delusion #money

The absence of a muse can be even more inspirational than its presence ↗

— ALAgrApHY

#artist #beauty #inspiration #inspirational #inspirational-quotes

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#justification #change

A Doll’s House is about money, about the way it turns locks. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#ibsen #money

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#agreement #any #bill #both #colleagues

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#got #makes #use #you

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway. ↗

— Simeon Strunsky

#buses #democracy #less #library #more

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse. ↗

— Stephen R. Donaldson

#i #limitations #respect #them #use

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christianity #discipleship #honor #humility #respect

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#discover #entire #entire universe #equal #equal measure