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- I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.
- J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964)
- I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.
- Ian McKellen, Interview on the Today Show, May 2006
- Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - )
- Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
- The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), "Molloy", 1951
- Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
- Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998)
- Man is the cruelest animal.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
- Sheldon Kopp
- Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), An Acceptable Time
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