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- Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
- Charlotte P Gilman
- As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity.
- Matthew Ryan
- Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.
- Unknown
- One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio changes to one quarter as many ...
- Anthony Chevins
- There was a young woman named Jenny,
Whose limericks weren't worth a penny. Her rhythm and rhyme Were perfectly fine But whenever she tried to write any, She always had one line too many. - Anonymous
- I was simply furnishing a home. I love music ... and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor stereo system is extravagant.
- Leona Helmsley, 1990, refuting charges that her lifestyle was excessive
- A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.
- Werner Heisenberg, Philosophical Problems of Nuclear Science, New York: Fawcett 1966, p.13
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