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- Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Twilight of the Idols (1899)
- Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), "Winter of Artifice"
- There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
- Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
- Lisa Alther
- "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Health is worth more than learning.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
- He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
- If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
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