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Miles Kindera


'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1


Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Deepak Chopra


You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

Abraham Lincoln


The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

Mark Twain


Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

Euripides


Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Henry Miller


When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.

Joseph Conrad


I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Anthony D'Angelo


The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Arlo Guthrie


You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Wystan Hugh Auden


As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.

George Washington Carver


I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God�s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

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Samuel Johnson


ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.

Toni Morrison


I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.

Mae West


You're never too old to become younger.

Phocion, from Plutarch, Apothegms


Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Dr. Jonas Salk


Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

Leo Tolstoy


And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Thomas Jefferson


Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

Edward Gibbon


Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Carolyn Heilbrun


The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Wilfred A. Peterson


The secret of greatness is simple do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

John Berry, Flight of White Crows


The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

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Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:45:55 GMT
"The people there are being subjected to mistreatment that is not acceptable with the conduct of a world power, which China is.'' -- U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain speaking against a Chinese crackdown on anti-government demonstrations by Tibetans.

Quotations of the day (AP via Yahoo! News)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:48:45 GMT
"I believe in God and everything, but he does things sometimes that make you wonder." — George Slayton, whose Piedmont, Mo., home was flooded from the heavy rain that has hit the Midwest.

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William James


Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Ivern Ball


A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.

Maria Montessori


Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ralph Peters, Interview in American Heritage


The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the long-term price is almost always too high.

Pearl Buck


There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Samuel Johnson


Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

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Man Ray, O Magazine, September 2002


It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.

Confucius, Analects


They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, 'Be sure, before I start, you have all the jewelry and so forth on the body, because I am NOT unwrapping him later.'

Ella Wheeler Wilcox


No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

Judith Stern


Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Grover Cleveland, last words, 1908.


I have tried so hard to do the right.

Edmund Burke


Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

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Fine silver quotations Thursday: $18.365 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:08:54 GMT
The Canadian Press March 20, 2008 - 1:52 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thurrsday $18.365 oz., $590.43 kg.; Wednesday $19.101 oz., $614.10 kg.

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Oriana Fallaci


Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Nathaniel Hawthorne


In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)


Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Trey and Matt Stone Parker


I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

Germaine Greer


Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Henri Frdric Amiel


Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

Joni Mitchell, song-The Last Time I Saw Richard


All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.

George Bernard Shaw


Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976


We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Robert Pirsig


Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

Caleb Carr


So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

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Quotations of the Day (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:58:00 GMT
"This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years." _ Bill Burton, a spokesman for Sen.

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Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

Edward R. Murrow


To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

John Milton


When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well

Gerald Barzan


Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Niels Henrik David Bohr


We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough

Brian Sutton-Smith


The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

John Holt


...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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