#wit

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#baseness #before #cannot #cynicism #easy

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#carries #certain #dangers #itself #learn

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak. ↗

— Verne Troyer

#across #being #challenge #get #good

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#american #films #flood #into #liberation

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#affordable #care #court #dies #freedom

You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#american #american dream #dream #foundation #good

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#anarchistic #area #assuming #band #definition

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words. ↗

— Chris Tucker

#cuss #cut #down #funnier #i

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#memory #repeat #rote #volumes #wisdom

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#fate #firmness #having #love #make