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- Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
- Alice Thomas Ellis
- When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
- Krishnamurti
- One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self-Reliance
- Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
- Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004
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