Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Duke of Wellington
Recitation: by Male by Female
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
Jerzy Kosinski
SufferingAmericanLongWrongSystem
The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.
Jerry Della Femina
ChangePeopleTurnAnythingGive
I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.
Jerry Pournelle
WorldInformationPlaceMoreThan
When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.
Johann Lamont
BalanceTalentDoorsInevitableMore
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
Maurice Druon
GoodBestPoetrySongLanguage
There's not one part of me that wants to go crazy and do anything out of the ordinary, but it would be nice to do something and not have it spread all over the place. But that's the world we live in now, and you either have to accept it or figure it out - or become a villain, I guess.
Matt Harvey
LiveMeCrazyVillainWorldYou
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Jean Paul
GreatThoughtYouActBeen
I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
Siobhan Fahey
UglyPeopleTreatThinkWayBecome
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
Robertson Davies
ArtCuriousNewBeliefHuman Spirit
So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.
Rush Limbaugh
LiveValuePeopleValuesHouseLost
I have a lot of friends with bad taste in music - some might say that I have bad taste in music.
Jonathan Levine
MusicFriendsBadSayTasteSome
It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.
Donald Trump
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