Today's Quotes

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Eric Hoffer


We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Zora Neale Hurston


Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Dick Werthimer


The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Prophet Mohammed, Muslim


A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation.

Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter (1948)


Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.


Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

Alphonse Desjardins, The Canadian credit union pioneer made the remarks in a speech in the early 1900s.


A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunates� The credit union is nothing of the kind; it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal.

Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless


The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

Anatole France


One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

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Tue, 20 May 2008 02:13:00 GMT
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