March 2010
39 posts
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“We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.”
– Blaise Pascal
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“It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your...”
– Frank Duff
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“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is in trying
to treat...”
– Alfred North Whitehead
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“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since
we...”
– Andre Weil, In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu
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“The different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction,...”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
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“There are always two or three or four sides to every story.”
– Denise Richards
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“There are two sides to every question.”
– Protagoras
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“This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power...”
– Cory Doctorow
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“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on
being...”
– Anna Quindlen
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“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“I think that in worrying, your mind is trying to buy an insurance
policy, to...”
– Carolyn Hax
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“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why
so few...”
– Henry Ford
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“Always forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.”
– Robert F. Kennedy
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“We forgive too little, forget too much.”
– Madame Swetchine
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“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers”
– Pablo Picasso
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“Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond...”
– Eric A. Burns
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“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first...”
– Unknown
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“I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.”
– Louise Nevelson
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“Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing...”
– Paul Goodman
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“I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are...”
– Ellen Goodman
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“Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.”
– French Proverb
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“Childhood is short, Maturity is forever”
– Calvin & Hobbes
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“What we do in life echoes in eternity.”
– Maximus in Gladiator
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“Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.”
– Jake Sulley in Avatar
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“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but
the...”
– Eric Hoffer
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“When people are sitting on shit that you want you make them your enemies, and...”
– Jake Sully in Avatar
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“I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of
support.”
– John Buchan
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“Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move”
– Jake Sully
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“There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark
Ages.”
– Ruth Hermence Green
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“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
– Albert Einstein
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“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill...”
– Voltaire
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“Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.”
– John Wayne
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“Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived forward”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the
wise...”
– Thomas Szasz
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“It is always the best policy to speak the truth—unless, of course, you are...”
– Jerome K. Jerome
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“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”
– Jerome K Jerome
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“What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.”
– Jerome K Jerome
February 2010
28 posts
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“The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty purse.”
– Unknown
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“One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have...”
– Randall Jarrell