January 2010
131 posts
“Dreams are illustrations…from the book your soul is writing about you.”
– Marsha Norman
December 2009
167 posts
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type...”
– Isaac Asimov
Fuck it. You throw a dart at a map, we’ll go there...
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if at first you don't succeed, try try again....
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“To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him...”
– Thomas Sowell
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“When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when...”
– Barbara Tuchman
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“Let a horse drink when he will, not what he will.”
– Proverb, (Danish)
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“Love him who tells you your faults in private.”
– Hebrew Proverb
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“O, that I were where I would be,
Then would I be where I am not;
For where I...”
– Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch, quoted in “Ship of Stars”, ch. XI
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“All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that...”
– Carl Sagan
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“Concealed goodness is a sort of vice.”
– Proverb, (Portuguese)
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“Young men’s knocks old men feel.”
– Proverb, (English)
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“Then fill the bowl—way with gloom!
Our joys shall always last;
For Hope...”
– Michael Eyquen de Montaigne, Essays (III)
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“In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to...”
– P. L. Berger
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“Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you’re afraid...”
– Mrs. Cunningham
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“The darkest hour of a man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to
get...”
– Horace Greeley
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“A restive morsel needs a spur of wine.”
– Proverb, (French)
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“A blow with a reed makes a noise but hurts not.”
– Proverb, (Spanish)
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“In the looking-glass we see our form, in wine the heart.”
– Proverb, (German)
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“A hug a day keeps the demons at bay.”
– Proverb, (German)
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“Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.”
– Martial
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“On a fool’s beard all learn to shave.”
– Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
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“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.”
– Mary Roberts Rhinehart
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“Better one living word than a hundred dead ones.”
– Proverb, (German)
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“Nearer, my God, to Thee—
Nearer to Thee—
E’en though it be a...”
– Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams, Nearer, my God, to Thee!, an article in “Notes and Queries” states words written by sister, Mrs. Byr
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“No man can make another’s destiny and all the wishing in the
world will...”
– Proverb, (Darkovan)
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“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To
destroy can be...”
– Anson G. Chester, Tapestry Weavers
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“Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.”
– Casey Stengel
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“The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be...”
– Hannah Whitall Smith
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“Everything has a purpose, even this. It’s up to you to find it.”
– Peaceful Warrior
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“Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to...”
– Robert Southey
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“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
– Ben Franklin
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“A wise man and a fool together, know more than a wise man alone.”
– Proverb, (Italian)
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“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.”
– Max Lerner
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“Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only
thing...”
– Vince Gill
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Peace begets prosperity; Prosperity begets pride;...
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“When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“The lazy servant takes eight steps to avoid one.”
– Proverb, (Portuguese)
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“Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, brings peace to the
house, and a happy...”
– Proverb, (Dutch)
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“You live and you learn — or you don’t live long.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
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“In men, we various ruling passions find;
In women two almost divide the kind;...”
– Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 207)~
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“The highest tree hath the greatest fall.”
– Proverb, (Latin)
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“No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”
– Winston Churchill
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“The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.”
– Proverb, (German)
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Never fear shadows... they simply mean there's a...
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“A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour’s...”
– William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour ‘s Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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“A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of...”
– Edward William Bok
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“No wind favors him who has no destined port.”
– Michel Eyquem
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“The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes