#van

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#day #every #every day #felicity #fortune

Self-justification is a treacherous servant. ↗

— Wellington Mara

#treacherous

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#advantage #been #being #believed #doctor

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#comparable #countries #disadvantages #face #far

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#am #brain #everything #first #horrors

That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom? ↗

— David Levithan

#evan #death

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#experience #hypothesis #only #prediction #relevant

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#car #coming #dinner #going #half

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#learn #life #limits #our

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends