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- How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), "Eloisa to Abelard"
- An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
- Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
- Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
- The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
- L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Book: Dianetics 55
- Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
- L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Book: The Creation of Human Ability
- Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
- It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
- Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking. Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, Touch, Interest and Being Vulnerable.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-03
- I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.
- Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005
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