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Sunday, February 20, 2011 - 7:50pmSanction this postReply
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What's not to like about a good quote!

Thanks, Ed.
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Here are a few I've collected (not categorized):


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When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard", I am always tempted to ask: "Compared to what?".

Sydney Harris

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I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape this oneness. (from Dalua)

Jim Harrison

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Courage is grace under pressure.

Hemingway

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The price of greatness is responsibility

Winston Churchill

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It is easier to be strong when you are following a clear vision.

Spencer Johnson

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain
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The greatest difficulty lies not in persuading people to accept new ideas, but in persuading them to abandon old ones

John Maynard Keynes

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We are drowning in information, but we are starving for wisdom

Tony Robbins

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

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Self-esteem is not a luxury: it is a profound spiritual need.

Nathaniel Branden

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You are not moved to change those things whose reality you deny.

Nathaniel Branden

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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both.

James Michner

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The road to wisdom? - Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.

Piet Hein

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What we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change.

Buddha

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A bore is person who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Gian Gravina

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A thing can't be anything but what it is

James Himes (Out of his novel, "Night of the Dance")

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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings
can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

Jacques Barzun

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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Jacques Barzun

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Intellect watches particularly over language because language is so far the only device for keeping ideas clear and emotions memorable.

Jacques Barzun

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(Edited by Steve Wolfer on 2/20, 7:51pm)


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Sunday, February 20, 2011 - 11:55pmSanction this postReply
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Great quotes, Steve!

Ed


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"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread
throughout Central Africa , raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome ."

Sir Winston Churchill in 1899; (Source: The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 London ) [Wikipedia]


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