"Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.
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“What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.”
“No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know”
“It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)”
More on Death
“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.”
“Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.”
More on Perspective
“The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.”
“There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.”
“As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.”