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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

Politics, Keep, Whole

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Work, Long, Rather

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

Live, Thinking, Living

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm

Person, Greed, Effort

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

Love, Act, Habit

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
John Keats

Kiss, Bliss, Soft

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken

War, Human, Fact

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Live, Another, Series

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Nothing, Else

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
Victor Hugo

Night, Soul, Same

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Speak, Effort, Earth

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Speak, Effort, Earth

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Joseph Addison

Love, Pain, Live

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
Sivananda

Life, Good, Bad

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.
Kobe Bryant

Different, Ending, Closer

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death, Human, Night

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time, Long, Short

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Roberto Assagioli

Life, Resentment, Governed

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
P. J. O'Rourke

Politics, God, Done

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
Rod McKuen

Sleep, Company, Cats

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
Henry Clay

Made, United, Generation

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Marcel Proust

Love, Person, Thought

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.
Jacques Lacan

Mean, Find, Means

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis

Success, Work, Goal

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
John Locke

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
Mario Batali

Food, Passion, Everything

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James

History, Takes, Tradition

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
Jerry Saltz

History, Culture, Open

What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.
Paul Ryan

Future, Today, Control

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sleep, Needs, Shallow

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