The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.Abraham Lincoln
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'Salman Rushdie
I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.Karl Lagerfeld
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.Aristotle
