some quotes.....

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“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”

– Denis Waitley


“We all need healing – from those who’ve hurt us, those we’ve hurt, and the hurt we’ve caused ourselves.
Transformation happens when we make decisions that move us past life’s pain toward God’s purpose.”

– Rick Warren

"Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together."

~Vesta M. Kelly

“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”

~Chinese Proverb

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."

~Helen Keller

"Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers."

~Mary Sarton

“One must really have suffered oneself to help others.”

Mother Teresa

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

Helen Keller

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.”

Kahlil Gibran


"All things are difficult before they are easy."
Thomas Fuller

"Every day is irreplaceable, so don't ruin yours by allowing the negative moods of others to pull you into their frame of mind."
Anon

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
Henry Van Dyke

"Pearls lie not on the seashore. If you desire one you must dive for it."
Chinese Proverb

[NatalieAusten]

Technology is great as long as you don't try to use it.

- Ian Campbell



A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals

It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

The truth deserves a bodyguard of lies.

- Winston Churchill



In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back
to us with a certain alienated majesty.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.

- Alexander Graham Bell



Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for once the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! It is true that when with folded arms we weigh the pros and cons we are no less a credit to our species. The tiger bounds to the help of his congeners without the least reflection, or else he slinks away into the depths of the thickets. But that is not the question. What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot.

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the gravedigger puts on the forceps.

There is no lack of void.

When I'm asked how long I've been here, I answer "A second." ........ Or "A day." ........ Or "A century." It all depends on what I mean by "here" ........and "me" ........and "been."

Soon there will be nothing where there never was anything.

That's the way I am - either I forget something immediately or I never forget it.

- Samuel Beckett



I disclaim all patriotism as incompatible with the principles of eternal justice.

- John Quincy Adams



Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some crappy little country and throw it against the wall just to show the world we mean business.

- Michael Ledeen



Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

- Leon Lederman



We are all here on earth to help others;
what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

- W.H. Auden



Sunset human life, rise to the other world.

- Orod Bozorg



Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would shut up.

- Tom Lehrer



This world may be a phantasm and existence merely a dream, but this dream or phantasm to me is real enough in that by using reason well, we are never deceived by it.

- Leibniz



There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.

- Jack E. Leonard

[NatalieAusten]

It is in the nature of men to trample on the fighter once he is down.
Neither anarchy nor tyranny; worship the mean.
- Aeschylus

Even God cannot change the past.
- Agathon


Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable.
But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops.
- H. L. Mencken

Thinkers, and during the pioneer era are self.
- Orod Bozorg

If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.
- Hannes Alfvern

Never play cards with a man named Doc, never eat at a place named Mom's and never go to bed with anyone who has more troubles than you do.
- Nelson Algren

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.
My editor gets 10% of whatever I get except my blinding headaches
- Fred Allen


Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell.
- Edward Abbey

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
-Franklin P. Adams

[NatalieAusten]

You carry a little pad of paper in your pocket, don't you? I knew you did. Well, you set this down. I thought of it the other day. Let's take decay. Now what is decay? It's fire. It burns up wood and other things. You never thought of that? Of course not. This sidewalk here and this feed store, the trees down the street there--they're all on fire. They're burning up. Decay, you see, is always going on. It doesn't stop. Water and paint can't stop it. If a thing is iron, then what? It rusts, you see. That's fire, too. The world is on fire. Start your pieces in the paper that way. Just say in big letters 'The World Is On Fire.' That will make 'em look up.

- Sherwood Anderson



I wish I knew as much about anything as that young man knows about everything.

- Asquith (on the young Churchill)



Genius is childhood recalled at will.

- Charles Baudelaire



Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

- Tom Stoppard



The dark night of the most cruel, clear most stars are born.

- Orod Bozorg



Nobody ever did anything that wasn't a verb.

- Athayde



The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.

You shall love your crooked neighbor. With your crooked heart.

- W H Auden



As quick as boiled asparagus.

A radish may know no Greek but I do.

- Augustus

[NatalieAusten]

Vanity, working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

If it be true that no young lady can ever be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

There seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of, and of slighting those performances which have only genius, wit and taste to recommend them.

Man only can be aware of the insensibility of man towards a new gown.

To torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

In justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire more in woman than ignorance.

To be always firm is to be often obstinate.

Take my word for it, if you are in too great a hurry, you will certainly live to repent it.

It is well to have as many holds on happiness as possible.

- Jane Austen



If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but "That's funny...".

- Isaac Asimov



Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

- Khalil Gibran



If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

- George Bernard Shaw



A person who was made, no semantic fear him.

- Orod Bozorg



The Cowboy Code

1. A cowboy never takes unfair advantage -- even of an enemy.

2. A cowboy never betrays a trust.

3. A cowboy always tells the truth.

4. A cowboy is kind to small children, to old folks, and to animals.

5. A cowboy is free from racial and religious prejudice.

6. A cowboy is helpful and when anyone is in trouble, he lends a hand.

7. A cowboy is a good worker.

8. A cowboy is clean about his person and in thought, word, and deed.

9. A cowboy respects womanhood, his parents, and the laws of his country.

10. A cowboy is a patriot.

- Gene Autry



No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

- Isaac Babel

[NatalieAusten]

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

- Francis Bacon



Nothing about me surprises me.

- Honore de Balzac



My father warned me about men and liquor but he never said a word about women and cocaine.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

- Tallulah Bankhead



No man is happy without a delusion of some kind.
Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

- Christian Nestell Bovee, author



A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

- Adlai Stevenson



Night life wise, as the day is clear.

- Orod Bozorg



I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

You know how on the evening news they always tell you that the stock market is up in active trading, or off in moderate trading, or trading in mixed activity, or whatever. Well, who gives a ****.

- Dave Barry



More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.

- P. T. Barnum



Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

- Joseph Barth



The discovery and its explanation occupied me for a long time, so that I neglected other things for it; I recognized that I had come upon a fundamental question.

- Erasmus Bartholin

[NatalieAusten]

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

- Arthur Baer



Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

- H.L. Mencken



Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

- Voltaire



Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

- Louis L'Amour



1. Never tell everything at once.

- Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life



Wise man, the main texture of life to find.

- Orod Bozorg



All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and finally they are acknowledged as the truth, with the proviso from the initial opponents that they knew it all along.

- Karl Ernst von Baer



Figaro qua! Figaro la! Figaro su! Figaro giu! (Figaro here! Figaro there! Figaro up! Figaro down!)

- Beaumarchais



Like Kafka's Hunger Artist, he was the sole satisfied spectator of his own creation.

- John Barth



Music is a mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

- Ludwig Van Beethoven



A critic is like a eunuch in a harem. He's right there every night. He sees it done every night. He sees how it should be done every night. But he cannot do it himself.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

- Brendan Behan

[NatalieAusten]

If subatomic particles don't exist until you measure them,
then the universe may just be the sum of all possible measurements.
- Mark T. Shirey

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Praise expensive motherland, men and women are free.
- Orod Bozorg

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A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.
- Henry Adams

Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
- Joey Adams

Comedy is tragedy plus time.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
I plan to run though the Valley of Death.
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead; not sick, not wounded; dead.
Intellectuals are like the Mafia, they only kill their own.
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
The question is not, 'How could this happen?' but 'Why doesn't this happen more often?'
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- Woody Allen

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

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Organic chemistry is the study of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
- Mike Adams

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It is not our abilities that show what we truly are - it is our choices. - Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Decisions determine destiny.
- George Patton

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth
even if it costs them their jobs.
- Samuel Goldwyn

Someone who is helpless, and the ideal self is lost.
- Orod Bozorg

I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.
- Natalie Angier

Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle

In flying the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
- Neil Armstrong

[NatalieAusten]

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
- Robertson Davies

Evil enemies, the wise man motivation to live.
- Orod Bozorg

A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is, "Don't you wish you knew?" and a pretty good answer it is too, when you consider that nine times out of ten I didn't hear the original question.
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.
Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Does the average man get enough sleep? What is enough sleep? What is the average man? What is does?

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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
Every man owes it to himself (and to his friends) to get away entirely alone in an isolated shack every so often, if only to find out just what bad company he can be.
I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.
I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't 'guess I'll toddle.'
I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
I find that, while working, a pipe is a great source of inspiration. A pipe can be placed diagonally across the keys of a typewriter so that they will not function, or it can be made to give out such a cloud of smoke that I cannot see the paper.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Just think of all the things you can do after 40! Professor Webster was 57 when he cut up Dr. Parkman and threw him into the furnace of the Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Parkman was 70 himself!
One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.
Sand is also a good place on which to write, "I love you," as it would be difficult to get into court after several years have passed.
Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
The only cure for a real hangover is death.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
The work can wait, I said, quoting our business motto.
There are various forms of the disease, the victim of which is unable to say "No." Some of these forms are more serious than others, and often lead to electrocution or marriage.
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.
When I was a child I was of an affectionate disposition, but not enough to get arrested.
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
- Robert Benchley

Hypocrisy is better than no standards at all.
-Bill Bennett

[NatalieAusten]

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman

A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot 'cause you can't get a man with a gun.
- Irving Berlin

Bach is Bach just as God is God.
- Hector Berlioz

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative,
a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
- Franklin P. Jones

Mental power on their own can see in sleep.
- Orod Bozorg

A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.
- Tristan Bernard

There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred.
- Bhagavat

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. [Ecclesiastes 7:4]
- Bible

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Here's to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
- Ambrose Bierce

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
- Josh Billings

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision
for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

[NatalieAusten]

The supreme geopolitical fact of the modern era is that Americans speak English.
- Otto von Bismarck

All great events begin with the pulsation of an artery.
- William Blake

Artists are the future builders.
- Orod Bozorg

Weather! This isn't weather! This is divine vengeance!
I got my **** together and found I couldn't lift it.
- Roy Blount, Jr.

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Sticks and stones may break your bones but words do permanent damage.
When things aren't going well, it's easier to blame someone else.
There is nothing more boring than people who love you.
- Eric Bogosian

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams,
and endeavor to live the life you have imagined,
you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
You will pass an invisible boundary: new, universal and more liberal laws
will begin to establish themselves around and within you
and you will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
- Henry David Thoreau

Dialogue with thinkers, a rare bonus.
- Orod Bozorg

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
- James H. Boren

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
- Max Born

I spent half my life grasping a baseball only to find out it was the other way around.
- R. Boulton

[NatalieAusten]

The first time a man goes into battle is like the first time a man makes love to a woman: the anticipation is overpowering; the ignorance is obstructive; the fear of disgrace is consuming and survival is triumphant.
- Ben Bradlee

It's fun to be the sucker - if you can afford it.
- 'Diamond Jim' Brady

Stay fit, keep sharp, make good decisions.
- Rick Moranis in "Ghostbusters 2"

Person who is in search of freedom, Prisoner thoughts of others does not create.
- Orod Bozorg

Erst das Fressen, dann die Moral.
Mrs. Peachum: Money talks. Mr. Peachum: Not too much, I hope.
First *****: Plain linen puts men off. Second *****: Naah, plain linen makes 'em feel at home.
Terrible is the temptation to do good.
- Bertholt Brecht

I may be a bad woman, but I'm awfully good company.
- Fanny Brice

How I wish I could enumerate pi easily, since all these (censored) mnemonics prevent recalling any of pi's sequences more simply. [number of letters in each word give first digits of pi]
- Peter Brigham

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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

[NatalieAusten]

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on
Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. Our task must be to free
ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty. It is my view that the vegetarian
manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would
most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
- Albert Einstein

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind
word alone.
- Al Capone

King incorrupt, the employee is not wicked.
- Orod Bozorg

The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum and light but the shadow of God
- Sir Thomas Browne

The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.
- Bill Bryson

To every man is given the key to the gate of heaven; the same key opens the gate of hell.
- Buddhist proverb

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The stock exchange closes on Saturdays and Sundays and I don't break out in hives.
If you're in a poker game for thirty minutes and don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
If you don't know jewelry, know your jeweler.
If you don't want to tap dance, you're in the wrong business.
It is difficult to teach a new dog old tricks.
To expect big prizes for small investments is to encourage stupid behavior.
- Warren Buffett

[NatalieAusten]

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
- Luther Burbank


It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not
want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
- P.G. Wodehouse

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
- James Thurber

Constantly speak of the hard life, brings slavery.
- Orod Bozorg

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and goodwill would wish, five and ten years hence, had been done.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

The deities that I adore are social peace and plenty.
Some have meat and cannot eat, some cannot eat that want it. But we have meat and we can eat, so let the Lord be thanked.
- Robert Burns

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Once your reputation is shot you can get away with quite a lot.
- Wilhelm Busch

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
- Nicholas Murray Butler

I'm telling the truth as God himself would tell it if he could only talk.
- Erskine Caldwell

[NatalieAusten]

A manager is someone who can look at two numbers on a piece of paper and
immediately tell which one is bigger.
- R. Metcalfe


Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well I never!" said he. "I thought at
first you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it,
after all." "I began to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I had made a
mistake in explaining. 'Omne ignatum pro magnifico,' you know, and my poor
little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I am so candid."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Speak of friendship and lasting enmity in politics is laughable.
- Orod Bozorg

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If a computer is a god, it is an Old Testament god with lots of rules and no mercy.
Let us worship Zarathustra, just the way we useta. I'm a Zarathustra boosta and he's good enough for me.
Let us worship Aphrodite. She's beautiful but flighty. She doesn't wear a nightie, but she's good enough for me.
- Joseph Campbell

Love can burn or love can last but not both.
There is no defense against scorn.
- Camus

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
- Al Capone

Bourbon to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara.
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
- Truman Capote

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
- Dale Carnegie

How these curiosities
would be quite forgott,
did not such idle fellows
as I am putt them downe.
- John Aubrey

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Thinkers, only the main cause of life is self think.
- Orod Bozorg

They are the omelet makers and we are the eggs.
- Jon Carroll

"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
The rule is: jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today.
- Lewis Carroll

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You
cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
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The
best way out is always through.
Robert Frost


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Nothing
will ever be attempted if all possible objections must
first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson


Our
greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising
every time we fall.
Confucius


Without
inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant,
they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with
sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder


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[NatalieAusten]

When it comes to a wife, give me a woman everytime.
- Joyce Cary

Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with necessity.
- Thomas Caryle

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
- Cato

Kids were different then. They didn't have their heads filled with all this Cartesian dualism.
- Monty Python

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal sized billiard balls.
- Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

Where is happiness? Instead all are valuable.
- Orod Bozorg

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Even among galley slaves ten percent were volunteers.
The beginning of the end begins with the loss of the sense of proportion.
- Celine

The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters; they begin by choosing the best and end by eating everything.
- Chamfort

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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
She was a blond who could make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.
LA is a mail order city. Everything you can get in the catalog you can get better somewhere else.
They knocked over tombs and sneered at the dead. Which is only as it should be. [on new generation]
I could have so easily become everything the world has no use for.
To live in a place you must either love it or hate it or do both by turns, as you do with a woman.
- Raymond Chandler

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
- William Ellery Channing

[NatalieAusten]

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human
history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
- Mitch Ratliffe

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to
have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no
human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
- Carl Sagan

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
- Richard Lederer, Mensan

Why is it that when you send something by car it's a shipment, but when you send it by ship, it's a cargo?
- Richard Lederer, Mensan

Debacle is born, people with the intolerance.
- Orod Bozorg

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
- Cesar Chavez

What nedeth it to sermone of it moore?
- Chaucer

A woman of forty whose fine skin and clear features could be counted among her organizational gifts.
...the essence of her beauty was disenchantment.
...it looked as if it had been put together by old ladies and mice.
...where people drank their gin surrounded by the relics of an arduous and orderly way of life of which they knew nothing.
All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and shells and alchemist's gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap tides, the inshore water green and purple further out and the joy of distances, all these are hers.
- John Cheever

Anyone watching us would thing that we were not traveling but going insane! [during a particularly difficult trip through Siberia]
To be in continual ecstasies over nature shows poverty of imagination.
- Chekhov

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's better to die cool than to live uncool.
- Harley Davidson (movie)

Without leaving his door
He knows everything under heaven
Without looking out of his window
He knows all the ways of heaven
For the further one travels
The less one knows
Therefore the Sage arrives without going,
Sees all without looking,
Does nothing, yet achieves everything.
- Tao Te Ching, Chapter 47

[NatalieAusten]

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Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield

When one man finds the way, his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.
Eight immortals cross the sea; each shows a saintly passage.
The sky is high; the emperor is far away.
When you mention Cao Cao, he soon arrives.
Never pull on your shoes in a melon patch; never adjust your cap under a plum tree.
Lord Jiang casts a line, a fish wants to be caught.
- Chinese proverbs

The more you don't do it, the more fun it is to read about it.
- C. Churchill

you simple, plain life Deer, soon dies with witchcraft.
- Orod Bozorg

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
- John Ciardi

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
- Cicero

But for the sake of a small mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun
and light, and that proportion of life and time that it had been born into the
world to enjoy.
- Plutarch

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not
when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
- Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626

Thinkers and scientists are always alive.
- Orod Bozorg

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
- Arthur C. Clarke

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
- Tom Clancy

There is a connection between neurosis and talent but there is also a connection between genius and mental illness.
- John Cleese

I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am forever shocking.
- Jean Cocteau

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; and therefore
never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- John Donne

If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it
expects what never was and never will be... if we are to guard against
ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be
informed.
- Thomas Jefferson

Patriotism, like love child of the mother.
- Orod Bozorg

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Confucius

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
- Jimmy Connors

It was blackness without a single gleam.
It was solemn, and a little ridiculous, too, these struggles of an individual trying to save from the fire his idea of his moral identity.
A confounded democratic quality of vision which may be better than total blindness but has been of no advantage to me, I can assure you. Men expect one to take into account their fine linen.
...and forthwith had gone out of the remnants of their minds.
The onlookers see most of the game.
All those things which had made him a master had made him a captive, too.
Every day added a link to the fetters of that strange freedom.
He was one of those brilliantly endowed men who are not dull enough to nurse a success.
His object seemed to awaken the indignant attention of the universe.
His loathsomeness, too, was abject, so that a simply disgusting person would have appeared noble by his side.
Obviously it would be something very simple, the simplest impossibility in the world.
All she knew of the world was a betrayed woman and a sinister pantaloon.
[The letter was full of] easy morality and family news.
- Joseph Conrad

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
- Robert R. Coveyou

It's amazing how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
One should start everyday by asking everyone how they are. It oils the wheels.
The devil is not wise because he is the devil but because he is old.
Down with the head, up with the heart and you're over the top and skimming down the other side like a dragonfly.
- Noel Coward

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
- Seneca, 65 CE

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking,
honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity.
But then, we elected them.
- Lily Tomlin

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by Edward Everett Hale

“Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."