The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. - J.R.R. Tolkien
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back. - J.R.R. Tolkien
There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you?e done since you left home. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one. - Herman Melville
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. - Naomi Wolf
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. - Herman Melville
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. - Herman Melville
There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last. - Herman Melville
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves? - Herman Melville
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