The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. – Herodotus
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. – Raymond Chandler
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges… which are employed altogether for their benefit. – Andrew Jackson
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, Give, give. – Abigail Adams
Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz
Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling – that theres nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can. – Mindy Kaling
