Here are a few......
-Dave
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I loved you. And love for you has not yet burned out of my soul. But
don't let my love cause you distress any more. I don't wish to bring you
grief. I loved you silently, hopelessly, sometimes in joy, sometimes in
jealousy. I loved you so sincerely, so tenderly. Ah, may God grant that
you be so loved by another.
- Anthony Burgess' "The End of the World News"
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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things
you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that
seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when
they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important
things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks
to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make
revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny
way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so
important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst,
I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but
for want of an understanding ear.
- Stephen King, "The Body"
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Quotes should never become a substitute for thought, but they can
certainly represent a treasured view that somewhere along the line
struck you as intriguing and original.
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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely
a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the
reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps
never have seen in himself.
-Marcel Proust
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Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been
forgotten.
-- B. F. Skinner
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The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should
the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and
elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker?
- Julian The Apostate
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A common mistake of people trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"
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A young man went to Socrates and asked to be taught.
Socrates led the man down to the sea, and waded in. The young man
hesitated, but followed Socrates until they were both chest deep
in the water. Socrates then pushed the young man's head under the
water and held it there for some time, though the young man
struggled.
Finally he released the young man, and waded back to dry land. Then
Socrates questioned the man. 'What did you most want just now?'
The young man replied, 'Air.' 'When you want knowledge as much as
you just wanted air, you shall have it.'
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Whose
face is marred by dust, sweat and blood: who knows the enthusiasm, the great
devotion, and spends himself in a worthy cause. Who at best if he wins
knows the thrill of high achievement and if he fails at least fails while
daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid
souls, who know neither victory nor defeat.
-Teddy Roosevelt
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to learn from one's mistakes is not the pinicle of wisdom.
the beasts of the forest and plains can do as much. the true
pinnacle of wisdom is to learn from the mistakes of others,
mistakes you have not yet made. that ability is what sets
mankind apart from the beasts.
-Lao Tsu's Tao Te Ching
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter
if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own
common sense.
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In Germany, they first came for the communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the homosexuals, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a homosexual.
Then they came for the catholics, and I didn't speak up
because I was a protestant.
Then they came for me ---
but by that time there was no one left to speak up.
-- Pastor Martin Neimoller
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HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN
Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WBYeats, 1899
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I have loved, I have lost. I have killed those who have loved me so. I have
learned, but at what cost? Lord, I don't know...I'm living on borrowed time.
- Brian Tatler, Sean Harris / Diamond Head, "Borrowed Time"
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I think you have just a little too much education, and it is keeping you
and your family from getting your dreams. The great people of this world
are dreamers, and everyone else works for them.
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A young boy traveled across Japan to the school of a famous
martial artist. When he arrived at the dojo he was given an audience
by the sensei.
"What do you wish from me?" the master asked. "I wish to be your
student and become the finest karateka in the land" the boy replied.
"How long must I study?"
"Ten years at least" the master answered. "Ten years is a long time,"
said the boy. "What if I studied twice as hard as all your other students?"
"Twenty years" replied the master. "Twenty years! What if I practice day
and night with all my effort?" "Thirty years" was the master's reply.
"How is it that each time I say I will work harder, you tell me it will
take longer?" the boy asked.
"The answer is clear. When one eye is fixed upon your destination,
there is only one eye left with which to find the way."
-- Anonymous
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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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pooh sidled up to piglet from behind.
"pooh," he whispered
"yes, piglet?"
"nothing," said piglet, taking pooh's paw.
"i just wanted to be sure of you."
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Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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A friend is someone who understands your past,
believes in your future,
and accepts you just the way you are today.
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You can fight against evil, but you're helpless against stupidity.
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People who drink to drown their sorrow should know that sorrow can swim.
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Jimmy Stewart played the father on a southern plantation when a young man came
to ask for his daughter's hand in marriage. The father asked, "Well, do you
like her?" The young man responded " - I love her!"
The father replied, "Love is easy. There's no thinking involved. It's just
feelings dragging you around. But your friends, who you like, you choose.
When you learn to like her, then you can marry her."
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man
would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear and
punshiment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein |
