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Quotations that resonate.The butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me. -Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941) ] wvuvw ] A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900) ] wvuvw ] It is probably no mere historical accident that the word person, in its first meaning, is a mask. It is rather a recognition of the fact that everyone is always and everywhere, more or less consciously, playing a role. -Robert Ezra Park, sociologist (1864-1944)) ] wvuvw ] Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration. -Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) ] wvuvw ] Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. -John Balguy ] wvuvw ] Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. -Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968) ] wvuvw ] An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart. -Robert M. Sapolsky, neuroscientist and author (1957- ) ] wvuvw ] The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. -Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983) ] wvuvw ] Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld, writer (1613-1680) ] wvuvw ] To find a person who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. -Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1938- ) ] wvuvw ] Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you. -Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936) ] wvuvw ] Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, ] wvuvw ] The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. -George Baker (1877-1965) ] wvuvw ] Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established. -Ludwig Feuerbach, philosopher (1804-1872) ] wvuvw ] Testing can show the presence of errors, but not their absence. -Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist (1930-2002) ] wvuvw ] Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. -Robert Brault ] wvuvw ] The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) ] wvuvw ] There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen, musician (1934- ) ] wvuvw ] Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child. -Lao-tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE) ] wvuvw ] Be like the bird, who halting in his flight -Victor Hugo, writer (1802-1885) ] wvuvw ] God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) ] wvuvw ] A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. -Nikos Kazantzakis, writer (1883-1957) ] wvuvw ] Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) ] wvuvw ] People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. -Alice Walker, writer (1944- ) ] wvuvw ] 'Tis with our judgements as our watches: none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. -Alexander Pope, poet (1688-1744) ] wvuvw ] You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. -Rwandan Proverb ] wvuvw ] Doubt everything at least once, even the proposition that two times two equals four. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799) ] wvuvw ] Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. - Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826) ] wvuvw ] No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. -Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978) ] wvuvw ] The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. -Hamming ] wvuvw ] Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. -Longfellow ] wvuvw ] Tranquillity is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it. -Bern Williams ] wvuvw ] In 1869 the waffle iron was invented for people who had wrinkled waffles. ] wvuvw ] Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. -Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (1899-1989) ] wvuvw ] Security is great, but having a big, violence-compatible thug you trust is even better. - Lakshmi's LJ 7/25/2005 ] wvuvw ]
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common
stone that is perfect. ] wvuvw ] The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place. -Gary Zukav, author (1942- ) ] wvuvw ] Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion. -Samuel James Ervin Jr., lawyer, judge, and senator (1896-1985) ] wvuvw ] You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956) ] wvuvw ] How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. -Spanish proverb ] wvuvw ] I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. -Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941) ] wvuvw ] "You smell like wet Tech Suport... with onions." - Strong Bad. ] wvuvw ] Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. -Susan Sontag, author and critic (1933-2004) ] wvuvw ] Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945) ] wvuvw ] The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963) ] wvuvw ] How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! -Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886) ] wvuvw ]
Tagon: Paranoid people are harder to kill than regular people. ] wvuvw ] Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. -Luther Burbank, horticulturist (1849-1926) ] wvuvw ] Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. -Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797) ] wvuvw ] Be good and you will be lonesome. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910) ] wvuvw ] If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. -Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (1885-1962) ] wvuvw ] We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) ] wvuvw ] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. -Edgar Watson Howe, novelist and editor (1853-1937) ] wvuvw ] Fine minds are seldom fine souls. -Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825) ] wvuvw ] In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous. -Robert G. Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899) ] wvuvw ] I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. -Pietro Aretino, satirist and dramatist (1492-1556) ] wvuvw ] If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. -Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992) |
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