Quotes
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Quote ~ Victor Hugo
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” – Victor Hugo Continue reading
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Quote ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet. ~ Edgar Allan Poe Continue reading
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Religion
“The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.” – Harvey Milk Continue reading
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Quote ~ Nhat Hanh
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the Continue reading
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Government ~ Harry S. Truman
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” – Harry S. Truman Continue reading
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Start
Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling, but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are with what you have. Just…start. ~Ijeoma Umebinyuo Continue reading
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Quote ~ Soren Kierkegaard
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” – Soren Kierkegaard Continue reading
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Quote
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Xunzi Continue reading
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Telephone Quote ~ Fran Lebowitz
The telephone is a good to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ~Fran Lebowitz Continue reading
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Coffee
What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup. ~Henry Rollins Continue reading
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Mountains
The mountains are mighty patience, Buddha-man ~Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums Continue reading
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People
“You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.” – Eldridge Cleaver Continue reading
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Quote ~ Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. ~Henry David Thoreau Continue reading
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People
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. ~Stephen King Continue reading
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Three Things
“We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.” – Jim Valvano Continue reading
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Quote ~ Benjamin Jowett
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. ~Benjamin Jowett Continue reading
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Quote ~ Al Pacino
“You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.” – Al Pacino Continue reading
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Spring Quote ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spring is strong and virtuous, Broad-sowing, cheerful, plenteous, Quickening underneath the mold Grains beyond the price of gold. So deep and large her bounties are, That one broad, long midsummer day Shall to the planet overpay The ravage of a year of war. Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Quote ~ John Urshel
“I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life.” – John Urschel (Former football player, Baltimore Ravens) Continue reading
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Knowledge
“Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.” – Nicky Gumbel Continue reading
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Quote ~ Janis Joplin
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. ~Janis Joplin Continue reading
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Noble And Beautiful
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. ~John Lennon Continue reading
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The Wind
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ~William Arthur Ward Continue reading
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Normal
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to Continue reading
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Perspective
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. ~Al Neuharth Continue reading
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Fear
“Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.” ~ Molly Ivins Continue reading
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Reading
“Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.” ~Paul Theroux Continue reading
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Wireless
When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts. ~Nikola Tesla Continue reading
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Books
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.” ~ Isaac Asimov Continue reading
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Cats
If cats were the double the size they are now, they’d probably be illegal. ~Douglas Coupland – Canadian Novelist Continue reading
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Darkness
Born: January 15, 1929 ~ Died: April 4, 1968 Continue reading
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Hypocrites
“Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.” ~ Marvin Gaye Born: April 2, 1939 ~ Died: April 1, 1984 Continue reading
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April
The April winds are magical, and thrill our tuneful frames; the garden walks are passionate to bachelors and dames. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Bumper Sticker
“Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.” ~ George Carlin Continue reading
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Poor People ~ John Goodman
“People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.” ~ John Goodman Continue reading
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Born: March 25, 1942 Continue reading
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Tabloids
People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to. ~Jerry Seinfeld Continue reading
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Comebacks
“You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.” ~ Peyton Manning Continue reading
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Death
In death – no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web may have been) we remember not that we have dreamed. ~Edgar Allan Continue reading
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Spring #2
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~Margaret Atwood, “Unearthing Suite,” 1983 Continue reading
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Spring
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson Continue reading
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Marriage
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ~Michel de Montaigne – (1533-1592) French Philosopher & Writer Continue reading
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Perfectionism
“Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.” ~ John Updike, March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009 Continue reading
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Anticipation
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. ~Alfred Hitchcock Continue reading
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The Wind
The wind blew very hard that day And snatched her petticoat away. ~Gustave Flaubert Pt III, Ch. VIII – Madame Bovary (1857) Continue reading
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Heart
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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The Right Ideas
Born: March 12, 1922 – Died: October 21, 1969 Continue reading
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Winning
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. -Wilma Rudolph Continue reading
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Man
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. -Gertrude Stein Continue reading
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Society
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. -Carl Sagan Continue reading
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Imagination
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. -Simone Weil Continue reading
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Facts
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. -Edmund Burke Continue reading
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Hate
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. -Maya Anjelou Continue reading
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Mind
Don’t believe everything you hear – even in your own mind. -Daniel Amen Continue reading
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Thinking
Occupation: Professor Continue reading
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March
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. -Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Great Expectations Continue reading
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Believe
One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up. -Arthur Koestler Continue reading
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Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and understand. -Confucius Continue reading
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Robots
I don’t thing the robots are taking over. I think the men who plays with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools. -Ray Bradbury Continue reading
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Earth
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. -Arthur C. Clarke Continue reading
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Great Teacher
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. -John Steinbeck Continue reading
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George Harrison’s Last Words
Born: February 25, 1943 – Died: November 29, 2001 Continue reading
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Conversation
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Continue reading
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Public Libraries
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. ~Henry Rollins Continue reading
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Friend
There is no friend as loyal as a book. -Ernest Hemingway Continue reading
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