Quotations
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A man’s work …..
A man’s work is nothing but his slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. — Albert Camus Continue reading
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Energy
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Nature
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. — Anatole France Continue reading
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Cooperation
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. — Bertrand Russell Continue reading
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A newspaper is a ….
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. — Henry Louis Mencken Continue reading
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Quote
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. — Sophocles Continue reading
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Do not fear ……
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. — Bertrand Russell Continue reading
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Public opinion …..
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin Continue reading
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Once a person is …..
Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them. — Nelson Mandela Continue reading
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Age
The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be. — Paul Newman Continue reading
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The first forty years ……
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Continue reading
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Quote
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. — Lorraine Hansberry Continue reading
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Life is not a ……
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. — Soren Kierkegaard Continue reading
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A conservative is ….
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. — Woodrow Wilson Continue reading
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Trouble
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folk’s who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. — William S. Burroughs Continue reading
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After all, a homeless man …..
After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is against him. — Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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The ache for home ….
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. — Maya Angelou Continue reading
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Living
Instructions for living a life. Pay Attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. –Mary Oliver Continue reading
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Everything
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few. — Shunryu Suzuki Continue reading
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Aw I don’t wanta go ….
Aw I don’t wanta go to no such thing. I just wanta to drink in alleys.’…But you’ll miss all that, just for some old wine.’ There’s wisdom in wine, goddam it’ I yelled. ‘Have a shot! — Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Shower Radio
Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there’s no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door. — Jerry Seinfeld Continue reading
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How long a minute is ……
How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you’re on. — Zall’s Second Law Continue reading
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Truth
Socrates showed us that thinking the truth is not enough. Truth demands to be lived. –Americ Azevedo Continue reading
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No matter what people say …..
No matter what people say about you, know who you are. Their blame can’t injure you, nor can their praise elevate you. You are what you are; nothing anyone can say can change that. — Daniel Levin Continue reading
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If you propose to speak ….
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America is a land …..
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. — Laurence J. Peter Source of quote Continue reading
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Conversation
A conversation is so much more than words: a conversation is eyes, smiles, the silences between the words. — Annika Thor Continue reading
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Opinions
But opinions, judgements, memories, dreaming about the future–ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality. — Charlotte J. Beck Continue reading
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Reality
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. — Thich Nhat Hanh Continue reading
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We may believe ……
We may believe that we know what another person is thinking, but most often our efforts at ‘mind reading’ are projections of our own inner, self-centered concerns. — Susan Edmiston, Leonard Scheff Continue reading
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All change is a miracle …..
All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. — Henry David Thoreau Continue reading
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Everything has been figured out, ….
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. — Jean-Paul Sartre Continue reading
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Mistakes
We made too many wrong mistakes. — Yogi Berra Continue reading
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Meaning
I”m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. — Andy Warhol Continue reading
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After all is said and done …..
After all is said and done, more is said than done. — Aesop Continue reading
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Many groups that have ….
Many groups that have the power to make life decisions for others don’t ever have to live out the consequences. — Frances Fox Piven Continue reading
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What is objectionable, ….
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. — Robert Francis Kennedy Continue reading
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My definition of a philosopher …..
My definition of a philosopher is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. — Louisa May Alcott Continue reading
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Earth provides enough ….
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed. — Mahatma Gandhi Continue reading
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American Dream
That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. — George Carlin Continue reading
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Forever
Forever is composed of nows. — Emily Dickinson Continue reading
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Look not mournfully into the past ….
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Continue reading
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Sanity
Sanity is a cozy lie. — Susan Sontag Continue reading
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Sometimes people don’t want …
Friedrich Nietzsche Source Continue reading
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A bird doesn’t sing …
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. — Lou Holtz Continue reading
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Whoever is happy ….
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. — Anne Frank Continue reading
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It is not who is …..
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. — Thomas Huxley Continue reading
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Create
Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest. — James Lovelock Continue reading
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Your mind will answer ….
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. — William S. Burroughs Continue reading
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Art produces ….
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful things with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. — Jean Cocteau Continue reading
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People who say, …
People who say, ‘Let the chips fall where they may,’ usually figure they will not be hit by a chip. — Bernard Williams Continue reading
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Self-Knowledge
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them. — Diana, Princess of Wales Continue reading
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A good marriage …
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne Continue reading
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I can’t believe …
I can’t believe that out of a hundred thousand sperm, you were the quickest. — Steven Pearl Continue reading
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Change
I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people. — John Lennon Continue reading
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When in …
When in doubt, do it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Continue reading
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Better a witty …
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. — William Shakespeare Continue reading
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We are tied …
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came. — John F. Kennedy Continue reading
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Think
A man who dies not think for himself does not think at all. — Oscar Wilde Continue reading
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Music doesn’t lie. …
Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. — Jimi Hendrix Continue reading
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Simple Philosophy
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. And scratch where it itches. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth Continue reading
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