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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness
,
Human
,
Another
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Equality
,
Means
,
Individual
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
Joseph Parry
Friends
,
Old
,
Keep
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Marilyn vos Savant
Trying
,
Between
,
York
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Lillian Smith
Time
,
Learning
,
Die
I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
Ozzy Osbourne
Judge
,
Saying
,
Book
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis
Good
,
Truth
,
Today
I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.
Kim Kardashian
Love
,
Working
,
Stories
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Two
,
Familiar
,
Author
Rereading, we find a new book.
Mason Cooley
Book
,
Find
,
Rereading
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
Words
,
Same
,
Old
You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.
Mick Jagger
Time
,
Morning
,
Yourself
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.
Stephen King
After
,
Keep
,
Results
Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Life
,
Simple
,
Brain
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
Alan King
Friend
,
Friendly
,
Down
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Irv Kupcinet
Diet
,
Person
,
Optimist
I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
King Abdullah II
Life
,
Good
,
Courage
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
Great
,
Science
,
Advance
I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
E. O. Wilson
Mind
,
Writing
,
Career
I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.
Emo Philips
Underwear
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
Eric Hoffer
Bad
,
Old
,
News
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
Emma Goldman
Human
,
Become
,
While
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.
Martha Beck
Forward
,
Moving
,
Journey
Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
Helen Rowland
Time
,
Heart
,
Trying
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
Mason Cooley
Longer
,
York
,
Drawing
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
Cecil Rhodes
Time
,
Find
,
Same
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
Hugo Black
Political
,
Away
,
Wind
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antonio Gaudi
Nature
,
Support
,
Works
Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
Stephen Colbert
Mean
,
Country
,
Opinion
I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the 'Hannah Montana' movie that will be out in the spring.
Miley Cyrus
Great
,
Amazing
,
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