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- God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
- Ramakrishna (1836 - 1886)
- If you should die before me, ask if you can bring a friend.
- Stone Temple Pilots, Still Remains
- The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
- Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc.1
- Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze
By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act V, sc. 1
- The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- Anonymous
- I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
- Jacob Riis
- Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)
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