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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. ↗

— John Milton

#forget #her #how #live #nations

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. ↗

— John Milton

#modesty #rich #starves #true

Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin! ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#give #give me #give me liberty #liberty #me

Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love. And maybe you answer, "Oh, I know that. It's old hat." And God answers, 'No, that's what you don't know. You don't know how much I love you. The moment you think you understand is the moment you do not understand. I am God, not man. You tell others about Me - your words are glib. My words are written in the blood of My only Son. The next time you preach about My love with such obnoxious familiarity, I may come and blow your whole prayer meeting apart. Did you know that every time you tell Me you love Me, I say thank you? ↗

— Brennan Manning

#love #prayer #imagination

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now. ↗

— Little Milton

#could #even #i #joints #learned

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#enormously #gave #great #humor #me

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone. ↗

— Sal Mineo

#i #mistaken #never #pat

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars! ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#cars #difference #drives #example #for example

An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#loneliness #sincerity #art

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. ↗

— Addison Mizner

#i #knew #met #people #were