Today's Famous Quotations
Straight to the Famous Quotations ...
William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
John Sloan Dickey
There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.
Andre Malraux
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Anonymous
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Thomas A. Edison
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
Henry Kissinger
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Rob Brown
The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.
James Joseph Sylvester
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
Seneca
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
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