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all my quotes, in random order |
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been."
William Hazlitt |
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"I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me"
Langston Hughes, The Black Man Speaks |
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"He who angers you conquers you."
Elizabeth Kenny |
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"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit"
Helen Keller |
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"There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion."
Henry David Thoreau |
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"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics, 1949. |
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"Wisdom begins in wonder"
Socrates |
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"When I became a man, I put away childish things --- including the desire to appear very grown-up."
C. S. Lewis |
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"No man is ever old enough to know better"
Holbrook Jackson |
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"American Beer is a lot like making love in a row boat -- It's F**king close to water!"
Monty Python's Eric Idle |
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"The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing."
Unknown |
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"Only two things are certain: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe."
Albert Einstein |
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
Alfred North Whitehead |
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"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams."
Doug Ivester |
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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use"
Kierkegaard |
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"Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up."
Jesse Jackson |
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"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
Brooke Shields |
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"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been."
Gerald Ford
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"Using no way as the way, using no limitation as limitation"
Bruce Lee |
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
Rich Cook |
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"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them"
Albert Einstein |
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"The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed"
Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Life |
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"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."
Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure". |
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"When the Paris Exhibition closes electric light will close with it and no more be heard of."
Erasmus Wilson, Oxford University Prof. |
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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect"
Mark Twain |
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"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."
La Bruyere |
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"In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before."
Publius Terentius Afer,159 BC |
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"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have"
Margaret Mead |
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""There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.""
Harry Millner |
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
Henry B. Adams |
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"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.""
David Rusell |
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"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
Rita Mae Brown |
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"Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is ... Norman Einstein."
Joe Theisman |
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"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."
Doctor Who |
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"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't lastout the year."
Chief editor, Prentice Hall, 1957. |
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"If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue."
Sears, Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897 |
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"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
Scott Adams |
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything"
Mark Twain |
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."
Plato |
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"Nothing ever goes away."
Barry Commoner |
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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt. |
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"Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances."
Unknown |
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"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
Albert Einstein |
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"We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory"
Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain |
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1901 |
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"Never get so busy making a living you forget to make a life."
unknown. |
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"Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid."
John Wayne |
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"Tell me, I forget. Show me, I remember. Involve me, I understand."
Chinese proverb |
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"People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot"
Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI |
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"Never fight an inanimate object."
P. J. O Rourke |
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"Women with "pasts" interest men because men hope that history will repeat itself."
Mae West |
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"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there."
Clare Booth Luce |
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
Aldous Huxley |
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"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
George Bancroft |
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"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today"
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost"
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
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"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral"
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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"I thought the rocky mountains would be a little more rocky...Yah that John Denver is full of shit."
Harry and Loyd (Dumb and Dumber) |
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"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided"
Mark Twain |
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"Radio has no future"
Lord Kelvin, 1897. |
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"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable"
Unknown |
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