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- Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
- Author Unknown
- You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
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- All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.
- Robert Fulghum (1937 - )
- Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Rodin (1840 - 1917)
- One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
- Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream"
- Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), 65 AD
- All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America. . .
- If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
- Gurdjieff
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