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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

There is no "royal road" to geometry.: Euclid, to king Ptolemy I
...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.: William F. Buckley, Jr., "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"
Tipper and Al came to a show the last time we were in Washington. They're nice people, a nice family. We made every effort not to frighten them.: Jerry Garcia, on rumors the Grateful Dead may play at the Inaugural. Boston Globe, Dec 12,1992.
Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.": William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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
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)

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