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- I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
- No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- Step with care and great tact
And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up your right foot with your left. - Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), Oh, the Places You'll Go
- Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
- Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006), "Holiday", September 1963
- A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.
- Glen Raphael
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