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- The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.
- Ingrid Bengis
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
- Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226)
- Never complain. Never explain.
- Katherine Hepburn
- If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.
- Emerson
- Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
- John Lahr
- People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
- Walter Savage Landor
- Ability is of little account without opportunity.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
- William McFee
- People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
- Wilbur N. Nesbit
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