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- You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.... - Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), Oh! The Places You'll Go!
- We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. - John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields"
- In wildness is the preservation of the world.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
- Joseph Sobran
- How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
- Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
- Octavio Paz (1914 - ), The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)
- Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.
- William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
- When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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