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We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
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David Russell
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
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Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
You don’t have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
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Francis Ford Coppola (1939 - )
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Hyperion, 1839
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), 'Jugurthine War,' 41 B.C.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
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King Charles I, of England
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
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Chinese Proverb
Virtue is choked with foul ambition.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 1
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
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Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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May Sarton
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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Paula Poundstone
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
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Saskya Pandita
If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, She's A Bit of A Pout, author's note, 08-31-11
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
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Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.
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Leonard Louis Levinson
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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