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The people had once created the city. The city now created the people, or, more exactly, the people of Venice now identified themselves more in terms of the city. The private had become public.

Venice: Pure City

Society had more and more rules, and laws that contradicted the rules, and new rules that contradicted the laws. People felt too frightened to take even a step outside the invisible regulations that guided everyone's lives.

Veronika Decides to Die

Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

Vignette

…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.

The Vicar of Wakefield

Never mind your intentions. Communication is about what others hear with your words.

What More Can I Say?: Why Communication Fails and What to Do About It

We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand). The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incompreh...

War and Peace

The more independent you are of him, the more interested he will be.

Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Interestingly, the more Americans report knowing about Muslim countries, the more likely they are to hold positive views of those countries. (p. 155)

Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.

The Winner Within

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more a...

Jonathan Safran Foer

Women, I think we can feel like we need to do it all and be it all. What's important is that we do the best we can, and just make time for yourself because when you do make time for yourself, you give back more as a mother; you give back more to your...

Miranda Kerr

Sincere, heartfelt appreciation is pure love, and is the strongest message to the Universe that this is more of what you want to experience. Feel grateful and attract more reason to be grateful for. It works like magic.

thankfulness appreciation gratitude - my journal

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

Two Boys Kissing

Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills

Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why.

Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.

Delirium