To love another person is ... (Les Miserables)

To love another person is ...

To love another person is to see the face of God.

- Lyric from Les Miserables

A great writer is ... (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers,only minor ones.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-)

Whining is ... (Maya Angelou)

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

- Maya Angelou

The Web’s top 10 conspiracy theories

The Web’s top 10 conspiracy theories

An obvious truth can be difficult to face. British magazine The Economist lists Google’s 10 most searched on conspiracy theories.

Business? (Alexandre Dumas)

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.

- Alexandre Dumas

Literature is ... (Virginia Woolf)

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

- Virginia Woolf

Love looks together in the same direction

Love looks together in the same direction

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Love

Sundries: A friend & a foe (Alfred Tennyson)

Sundries: A friend & a foe (Alfred Tennyson)

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Common sense and a sense of humor (Clive James)

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

- Clive James