Great Throughts Treasury

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Eli Pariser

We need to fix the Bush prescription drug plan that subsidizes big pharmaceutical companies at the expense of senior citizens. We need to stop the oil companies from obscene profiteering, which reduces the standard of living for so many Americans. As usual, this Administration prescribes the same quack medicine for all our ailments: tax breaks for the richest Americans and the largest, most profitable corporations.

Delay | Diversion | Problems |

Elihu Root

War comes today as the result of one of three causes: either actual or threatened wrong by one country to another, or suspicion by one country that another intends to do it wrong ... or, from bitterness of feeling, dependent in no degree whatever upon substantial questions of difference. . . . The least of these three causes of war is actual injustice.

Brotherhood | Charity | Desire | Duty | Individual | Judgment | Love | Malice | People | Progress | Prosperity | Regard | Sentiment | Happiness |

Elihu Root

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

Justice |

Eli Pariser

This is a big moment. We're coming together from across the spectrum to protect the principles that are core to our identity as Americans.

Justice |

Elihu Root

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

Circumstances | Justice | Right | Sense |

Eli Pariser

Michael Brown taught us that vital national positions must be filled with qualified candidates, not political friends with little experience.

Justice | Rights |

Elif Safak

Sometimes ... yaralanıveririz so suddenly. But every wound will heal itself. Eventually heals, top off. Stored in the eyes. Does not want to be seen because there is no wound. As long as they advocate the wound pupils. Because if pupils are injured, you cannot look the world in the same way ever again. You start to see the bad side of everything you look at. Contaminants that have remained hidden even run away from his eyes. Did not see things that other people feel the same anymore and you do not love them anymore. Uncomfortable. They cannot look you in the same way again. This is close to you, so no one wants to see. Picture the same image, in fact, changing your eyes. If you walk out the picture, everything remains as before, not everyone is comfortable. Personally, I think it is best to go in such situations. Top go to the top. Out of spite.

Consciousness | Duty | God | Individual | Morality | Rule | God | Learn |

Elias Canetti

When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.

Experience | Justice | Knowledge | Language | Literature | Man | Men | Past | People | Rights | Story | Time | Words | Worth | Child |

William Shakespeare

Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter, dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty, beyond what can be valued, rich or rare, no less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor; as much as child e'er loved, or father found, a love that makes breath poor and speech unable.

Behavior | Cause | Children | Contempt | Counsel | Desire | Duty | Father | Fear | Friend | Good | Grace | Heaven | Honor | Love | Marriage | Mind | Obedience | Pity | Pleasure | Right | Sacred | Time | Wife | Will | Wise | Wit | Woman | Friendship | Counsel | Friends |

William Shakespeare

Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.

Duty | Woman |

William Shakespeare

So, of his gentleness, Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Business | Cause | Day | Death | Duty | Father | God | Greatness | Guilt | Law | Life | Life | Man | Men | Peace | Purpose | Purpose | Sin | Soul | Teach | Time | War | Business | God | Guilty | Think |

Elizabeth Gilbert

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.

Duty | Sense | Happiness |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.

Genius | Justice |

Elizabeth Gilbert

When you set out in the world to help yourself, sometimes you end up helping Tutti.

Duty | Life | Life | Sense | Happiness |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, since every victim-carrion turns to use, and drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, against each piled injustice.

Duty | Life | Life | Love | Man | Service | Sound | World |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Brotherhood | Devotion | Heart | Justice | Old |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

Cause | Desire | Duty | God | Nothing | Prosperity | God |

Emil M. Cioran

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Duty | Love |

Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Duty | Liberty | Observation |

Emile Zola

At first, tried to seize opportunities, to faith in good housewife: then, was swayed by the coquetry: in the end, ate her alive.

Justice |