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Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

Arnold Bennett


The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

H. M. Tomlinson


It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca


What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Steve Goodman


People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.

Unknown


A library is an arsenal of liberty.

Bill Wulf


There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.

Haniel Long


In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.

Henry David Thoreau


I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

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Sophocles


Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

R. A. Dickson


Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.

Alfred Lord Tennyson


Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever.

James Reston


This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

Chinese proverb


A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov


He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

F. J. Raymond


Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

Chinese Proverb


If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

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Laurence Sterne


Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Carl Jung


Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place

Plato


Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Antonin Scalia


In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been.

Chuck Reid


In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.

Agesilaus the Second


Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

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Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947


Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara


Silence is argument carried out by other means.

William Fullbright


We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

Eric Hoffer


We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

James Ramsey


It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

Unknown


Pessimists are in a winwin situation, whatever happens they are either always right or pleasantly suprised.

Matthew Prior


They always talk who never think.

Randolph Bourne


Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Phaedrus


There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Alben W. Barkley, (vice president under Harry Truman)


The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

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John M. Ford


I am...a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

Ausonius


He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Robert Benchley


Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it. - Phoenissae

Dave Meurer


A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Bill Watterson, "Calvin", Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons


Today my spirit is going to school while my body stays in bed.

H. L. Mencken


Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Aristotle


The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World


Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

Rachel Hunter


I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

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Ludwig Erhard


A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality


Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

Mignon McLaughlin


No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow"


On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

Jacques Martin Barzun


Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop


I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

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