July 2010
10 posts
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
– Jean Rostand
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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.
– Cory Doctorow
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Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to...
– Howard Scott
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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept...
– Woody Allen
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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
– Voltaire
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Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
– Nikki Giovanni
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to...
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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It’s not the will to win that matters…everyone has that. It’s...
– Paul “Bear” Bryant
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The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is: How well did you...
– Richard Bach
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The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented...
– George Orwell
June 2010
15 posts
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Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
– Henry David Thoreau
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It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were
– Albert Einstein
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Glamour - When the value of the package exceeds that of the contents.
– Dr. Paul B. Popenoe
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Well done is better than well said.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
– Pablo Picasso
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Build to change instead of building to last.
– unknown
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Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don’t, and...
– Cheryl Tiegs
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It’s hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.
– Darby Conley
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Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
– Helen Keller
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and...
– Goethe
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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world...
– Albert Pine
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee —...
– Bradley’s Bromide
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Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a...
– Michael Sinz
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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer...
– Unknown
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder
– M. C. Escher
May 2010
27 posts
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A hundred objective measurements didn’t sum the worth of a garden; only...
– Lois McMaster Bujold
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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
– Anna Quindlen
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens...
– Aldous Huxley
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The way we distinguish ourselves is by showing our individuality.
– Elisa Camahort
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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous...
– Kent Nerburn
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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
– Georg Wilhelm
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It’s so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance
– Lena Horne
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Knowledge is to know that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not to put it in the...
– Melvyn Bragg
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known
– Carl Sagan
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
– Miguel de Cervantes
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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
– Stella Adler
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
– Hugh Prather
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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards
– Soren Kierkegaard
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If everyone in truth loved the neighbor as himself, then perfect human equality...
– Soren Kierkegaard
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A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the...
– John J. Pershing
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God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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An honor is not diminished for being shared.
– Lois McMaster Bujold
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Do or do not; there is no try.
– Jedi Master Yoda in ‘Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back’
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We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of...
– Francis J. Braceland
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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what...
– Henry Ford
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
– Eckhart Tolle
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Courage is the power to let go of the familiar
– Raymond Lindquist
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
– Tallulah Bankhead
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Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.
– Blaise Pascal