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- We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
- Kathleen Norris
- Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
- John Ray
- An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895)
- Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.
- Shakespeare
- Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
- Katherine Hepburn
- In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
- Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
- Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- Ben Johnson, Timber; or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter
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