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The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.: Ellen Glasglow
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845
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Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), My Antonia
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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I don't think it's good that we're perceived as different I think it's important we're perceived as MUCH BETTER. If being different is essential to doing that, then we have to do that, but if we could be much better without being different, that'd be fine with me. I want to be much better! I don't care about being different, but we'll have to be different in some ways to be much better.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.: Desmond Morris
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.: Janet Long
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You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.: Hesketh Pearson
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The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.: Arnold Bennett
He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.: Chinese Proverb
Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 05, 2004
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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.: William Van Horne