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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.: William Langland (1332 - 1400)
The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside...: Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), Movie Reveiw of "American Beauty"
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.: Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.: Jules de Gaultier
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Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.: Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
If you enjoyed making a thing, and you’re proud of the thing you made, that’s enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that’s okay.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984), quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.: Unknown
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908