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- 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
- Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.
- Michael Landon (1936 - 1991)
- Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So. . . get on your way.
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
- I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.
- J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964)
- I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.
- Ian McKellen, Interview on the Today Show, May 2006
- Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - )
- Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
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