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"It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and
sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they
were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain
must be obtained by their charms and weakness."
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
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Reason.net
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Un croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours.
(Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.")
~ Napoleon
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Seeing it once is better than being told 100 times.
bai wen bu ru yi jian
~ Zhou Chongguo, Han Dynasty
or,
A picture is worth ten thousand words
~ By Fred Barnard (American), March 10,1927, and often mis-quoted as an old Chinese proverb.
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"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
~ James Thurber
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
~ Plato
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"Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music
while the music lasts."
~ T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) The Dry Salvages
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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
~ Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
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Let the mind be inspired by poetry, then given a firm foundation by the
study of propriety, and finally perfected by music.
~ Confucius (551-478 BC) Analects, VIII.8
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Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in Man of conversing with
Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.
~ William Blake (1757-1827)
A Vision of the Last Judgment(1810)
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"Have another drink and just listen to the music."
~ Charles de Lint, Forests of the Heart
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"Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no
evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. It would not
leave them narrow-minded and bigoted."
~ Henry David Thoreau
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to
be silent."
~ Victor Hugo
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"If music be the food of love, play on!"
~ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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Music is the universal language of mankind, poetry their universal pastime
and delight.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
~ Jules de Gaultier
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I Hope You Dance
written by Mark Sanders and Tia Sillers
sung by Lee Ann Womack
I hope you dance
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,
May you never take one single breath for granted,
GOD forbid love ever leave you empty handed,
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance,
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin',
Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin',
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter,
When you come close to sellin' out reconsider,
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along,
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone.)
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.
Dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance..
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone
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Beauty is truth, truth is beauty,
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
~ Keats
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"Having a good personality does not mean one is a good person."
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"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy
of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that
someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship"
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The best and most beautiful discovery that true friends make is that they can grow separately
without growing apart."
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"A lover is easier to find than a friend."
~ Paul Thorn, musician
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"You can't choose your thoughts, you choose your actions."
~ Iain Melotte
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"There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers."
~ Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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"You can have anything you want-if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
~ Abraham Lincoln
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Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to loose
without regret, how to acquire without meanness, and you will be a true man."
~ Kurt Vonnegut
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
~ Bob Dylan
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"The way you think about things shapes the way your reality is."
~ Lisa Mason, Summer of Love
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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
~ Issac Asimov, Foundation
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"To act is so easy, to think is so hard!"
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet (1749-1832)
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"No man is worth the tear of a beautiful woman, and every woman is beautiful."
~ Unknown
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"It is always best to leave while you're still having fun."
~ Unknown
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"After all is said and done, there's more said than done."
~ Will Rogers
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"...An enchanting beauty, she offers her hand, whispers your name and those that go
with her are never the same..."
~ Unknown
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"All the suffering in the world arises out of wanting happiness for self.
All happiness in the world arises out of wanting happiness for others."
~ Shantideva
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art . . . it has no survival value;
rather is one of those things that give value to survival."
~ C.S. Lewis
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"I don't want realistic! I want magic!"
~ Tenessee Williams, "A Street Car Named Desire"
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"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying
on the passers-by to come and love us."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it."
~ Vincent Van Gogh
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
~ Aldous Huxley
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"Different eyes see different things. Different hearts beat on different strings.
But there are times for you and me when all such things agree."
~ Rush
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"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
~ Francis Bacon
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"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple
which has no superfluous parts
which exactly answers its end
which stands related to all things
which is the mean of many extremes."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."
~ Michaelangelo, In Art/Michelangelo
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"Sensations are rapid dreams."
~ Santayana
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
~ Aristotle
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"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."
~ Eva Young
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"Think that this day will never dawn again."
~ Dante
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"Finding a lover is easier than finding a friend."
~ Paul Thorn, blues musician
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"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."
~ Milton Berle
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
~ Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
~ President Dwight Eisenhower
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"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
~ Sir Winston Churchill
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The Lyre of Myriad Tunes
by The Lu, translated by Hunyh Thong of Yale University
Published in The Vietnam Forum 2, Seiten 56-58
"I am a wanderer roaming back and forth
along the paths or high roads of the world,
seeking my thrills from laughter and from tears,
in hours of mirth, at moments of distress,
when striving or while dreaming idle dreams.
I cherish life with all its woes and joys,
its heartbreaks and its horrors, its delights
and glories, its fierce passions, love or hate.
You tell me I am fickle, take to heart
no purpose, lack a doctrine--but who cares?
I'm just a man who desperately loves,
who craves for beauty's myriad shapes and forms.
I borrow from the muse her fairy brush,
her wondrous lyre--with both I'll paint, I'll sing
all beauty--quiet, delicate, naive,
or noble, grandiouse, heroic, proud,
the splendor of wild nature, poetry, thought,
a woman's lovely grace, bewitching charm,
the dance of light, the vivid sun of spring,
the gloom and hush on days of dismal rain,
the furor of the waves, of waterfalls,
the frailty of a petal on the wind,
the squalor of those spots where mud collects,
the bliss of hovering in pipe dreams and mists,
the zest for battle on the field of life:
I love it all and spellbound, grasp it all.
I want to mourn, on hearing cries of grief,
to feel inflamed by verses breathing fire.
I sing high praise and lift the spirit up,
or for some loverlorn girl I sigh and moan.
I echo that glad warble of a flute
or comfort with a bell's miraculous voice.
The muse lends me her lyre of myriad tunes,
her brush of myriad tints--I want to play
a wizard working wonders, magic tricks
with all the sounds and colors of the earth."
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The four loves
C. S. Lewis - #
Storge - this is affection; familial love; the love for family and things…brothers and sisters,
our colleagues or our possessions perhaps.
Philia - the love for people who share a hobby, point of view, or others interests with ourselves...friendship.
Eros - is not actually meant to be sensual love, as some would define it, but rather a romantic
love or passionate feelings. C. S. Lewis calls sensual love "Venus", but it is not really thought
of as being love at all. This is because sensual/sexual feelings do not require love for them to
exist. They are physical (of the body) and not emotional (of the heart). Eros is the only one of
the four loves which can become possessive, when it becomes an impossible love.
Agape -- spiritual love, the charitable, unmerited, mercy love as God's love for us.
Further defining the loves
If affection is jealous but undiscriminating, and friendship is discriminating but not jealous, eros is
both discriminating and jealous
The descriptions of the four loves are flimsy in that most relationships contain mixtures of all these
different loves in various ratios, so they are difficult to pinpoint. Perhaps this mixture of these
different loves explains why we can perhaps love one of our children more than another - or have "best"
friends - or friendships that could develop into romantic love or in rare instances a romantic love that
becomes a close friendship. There exists degreed of love as in degrees of friendships - casual, special
and best friends. It's puzzling, to say the least, trying to unravel the mysteries of love.
While romance is an exclusive passion between two people and initially directed toward each other,
friendship is a relationship between two people who share passions for the same interests or hobbies.
Young romantic relationships must develop friendships in order not to smother each other and to continue
when the infatuation passes.
The Four Loves: A Study - #
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"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
~ Alexander Hamilton
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"The ego, so important to our sense of identity, magically slips away when we're creating."
~ Physicist and author Alan Lightman
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"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness that holds what we want"
~ Tao-Te Ching
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"Realism is simply romanticism that has lost its reason."
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"Take my hand and lead me to salvation. Take my love for love is everlasting.
And remember the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see
the face of God. Do you hear the people sing lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a people who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of
the earth there is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end
and the sun will rise."
~ Finale from Les Miserables
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision."
~ The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, American clergyman and college president (1917 - )
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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
~ Dwight Eisenhower
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If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z.
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
~ Albert Einstein
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"The beauty of the subject in nature has nothing to do with the quality that makes a work of art.
This special quality is given by the artist's way of expressing himself."
~ Robert Demachy
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He's a fool that's fond.
~ Proverb
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Good words and bad deeds deceive both wise and simple.
~ Proverb (Spanish)
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble
and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.
~ True and Beautiful-Painting by John Ruskin
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A picture is a poem without words.
~ Confucius, Anet. ad Her. (4, 28)
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Hard features every bungler can command:
To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
~ John Dryden, To Mr. Lee, on his Alexander (l. 53)
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He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other
minds, and not for his own.
~ Mrs. Anna Jameson, Memoirs and Essays--Washington Allston
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The picture that approaches sculpture nearest
Is the best picture.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo (pt. II, 4)
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Vain is the hope by colouring to display
The bright effulgence of the noontide ray
Or paint the full-orb'd ruler of the skies
With pencils dipt in dull terrestrial dyes.
~ William Mason, Fresnoy's Art of Painting
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
~ Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard (last line)
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I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me.
~ Julia Margaret Cameron, Annals of my Glass House
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What is lovely never dies,
But passes into other loveliness,
Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich, A Shadow of the Night
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I must not say that she was true,
Yet let me say that she was fair;
And they, that lovely face who view,
They should not ask if truth be there.
~ Matthew Arnold, Euphrosyne
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And behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful.
~ John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (pt. I)
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A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
~ Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto XV, st. 43)
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight,
but does not captivate the affections.
[Sp., No todas hermosuras enamoran, que algunas alegran la vista, y no rinden la voluntad.]
~ Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (II, 6)
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Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing,
Her virtues were so rare.
~ George Chapman, All Fools (act I, sc. 1)
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She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me:
Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light.
~ Hartley Coleridge, Song
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Her gentle limbs did she undress,
And lay down in her loveliness.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel (pt. I, st. 24)
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays--The Poet
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The finest poetry was first experience.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Shakespeare
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
~ Alexander Pope, Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 146)
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
~ Auguste Rodin
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Silence is a friend who will never betray.
~ Confucius
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He sees only night, and hears only silence.
[Fr., Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.]
~ Jacques Delille (also Jaques Delisle), Imagination (IV)
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Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
[Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.]
~ George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
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The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
~ Sir William Jones
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Sleep hath its own world,
A boundary between the things misnamed
Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,
And a wide realm of wild reality,
And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.
~ Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), The Dream (st. 1)
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I love night more than day--she is so lovely;
But I love night the most because she brings
My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie.
~ Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. Water and Wood--Midnight)
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Most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber!
~ Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto III, st. 93)
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For the night
Shows stars and women in a better light.
~ Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto II, st. 152)
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'Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen-
For what listen they?
~ John Keats, A Prophecy (l. 1)
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I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
~ Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Darkness
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To me at least was never evening yet
But seemed far beautifuller than its day.
~ Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book--Pompilia (l. 357)
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Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
~ Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2)
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The good of other times let people state;
I think it lucky I was born so late.
[Lat., Prisca juvent alios; ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor.]
~ Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ars Amatoria (III, 121), (translation by Sydney Smith)
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Our time is a very shadow that passeth away.
~ Bible, Wisdom of Solomon (Ch. II, v. 5)
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
~ Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred (bk. IV, ch. VIII)
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Friends depart, and memory takes them
To her caverns, pure and deep.
~ Thomas Haynes Bayly, Teach Me to Forget
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To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die.
~ Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground (st. 6)
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I stood on the bridge at midnight,
As the clocks were striking the hour,
And the moon rose over the city,
Behind the dark church tower.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bridge
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O wild and wondrous midnight,
There is a might in thee
To make the charmed body
Almost like spirit be,
And give it some faint glimpses
Of immortality.
~ James Russell Lowell, Midnight
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The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus at V, i)
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"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for."
~ Alexander Graham Bell
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"Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your strength lies."
~ Mother Teresa
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"Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon,
Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,
Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven"
~ Joaquin Miller, Ina (sc. 2)
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"O, wild and wondrous midnight, there is a might in thee; to make the charmed body;
almost like spirit be, and give it some faint glimpses; of immortality."
~ James Russell Lowell (1819 - 91) American poet & essayist Midnight
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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to
those who would not."
~ Thomas Jefferson
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"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything,
even poverty, you can survive it."
~ Bill Cosby
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"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
~ Irish playwright Sean O'Casey
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"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80."
~ Henry Ford
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
~ Albert Einstein
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"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life."
~ Oscar Wilde
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"Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish."
~ Aristotle
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"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
~ Francis Bacon
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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his nature into his pictures."
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers."
~ James Baldwin
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"As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has
nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color."
~ James McNeill Whistler
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"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."
~ Leonardo da Vinci
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"Lord, let me always desire more then I think I can do."
~ Michelangelo
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"Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be the
indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable."
~ Pierre Auguste Renoir
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"White does not exist in nature.
~ Renoir
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"The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad."
~ Salvador Dali
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"The difference between mediocrity and excellence is attention to detail."
~ Sebastian J. Barbarito
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"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers
its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.
It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."
~ William Somerset Maugham
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"Always do what you are afraid to do."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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"Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the
arts and the source of their wonders."
~ Francisco Goya
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"Man knows so much and does so little."
~ Buckminster Fuller, Inventor
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"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as
a carrier behind it, you almost don't have to manage them."
~ Jack Welch
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"A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium."
~ Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
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"A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him."
~ Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
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"Even when the wound is healed the scar remains."
~ Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
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"Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water."
~ Proverb (Japanese)
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"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession,
friendship is never anything but sharing."
~ Elie Wiesel
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"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."
~ Eugene Lonesco
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"Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested:..."
~ Bacon
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"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession,
friendship is never anything but sharing."
~ Elie Wiesel (http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/wie0bio-1)
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You can only be the friend your friend will allow you to be.
~ Anonymous
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"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."
~Scientist Wernher Von Braun, part of the team whose work helped put a man on the moon
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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
~ Mother Teresa
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
~ George Washington
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"Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends."
~ Bob Hope. The comedian, who turned 100 in May, died late Sunday night.
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"...the sort that takes all and gives naught..."
~ D. H. Lawrence in Sons and Lovers
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"Seek not the rose which is once lost."
~ Proverb (Latin)
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"Our last garment is made without pockets."
~ Proverb (Romanian, Italian)
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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
~ Walt Whitman
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"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."
~ Oprah Winfrey
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"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
~ Oprah Winfrey
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"And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home."
~ Christopher Colombus
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
~ Albert Einstein
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"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that
he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."
~ Joseph Addison
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"Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health,
no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society."
~ Thomas Jefferson
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"Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to
spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a
very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're
willing to spend on it."
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no help at all."
~ Dale Carnegie
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible,
and achieve it, generation after generation."
~ Pearl Buck
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"Seek not the rose which is once lost."
~ Danish Proverb
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"Proverbs are the children off experience."
~ English Proverb
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"Drink wine, it's what remains of the harvest of youth - the season of roses and wine and
drunken friends. Be happy for this moment, this moment is your life."
~ The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam
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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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If you are seeking out friendships, start by being a friend to someone else. Friendship is
not about what someone can do for you, but about being there, and being selfless.
Don't do things because you think it will make you look important or draw
people to you. Do what you do because you enjoy it.
Reach out to others because you want to help them, not because you want them to help you.
If you decide to be a self-absorbed person who uses everyone around you, have the guts
to admit what you are. At least you will gain respect for your honesty.
~ Unknown
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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
~ George Lois
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~ Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
~ Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
~ Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
~ W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.
~ William Baziotes
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"The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now."
~ Bill Cosby
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"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."
~ Maya Angelou
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"Think as you work--for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in
solving problems, but also in anticipating them."
~Tom Lehrer
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Seldom seen soon forgotten.
~ Italian Proverbs
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"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man."
~ Pliny
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Younger
The death of Pliny the Elder as told by Pliny the Younger
In A.D. 77 a workaholic called Pliny the Elder published the first encyclopedia, Natural History.
Headless people were among the many marvels.
Gaius Plinius Secundus, the man we know as Pliny the Elder, was born in Como, Italy, in A.D. 23. By
the time he died 56 years later, he had been a cavalry officer, an adviser to emperors and the author
of at least 75 books, not to mention another 160 volumes of unpublished notebooks. He is remembered
today for just one of those works, his 37-volume Natural History, in which he planned to "set forth
in detail all the contents of the entire world."
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The Differences
Men use love (romance) to get sex while women use sex to get love (romance).
Men are accomplishment oriented while women are relationship oriented.
Men are visually oriented while women are verbally oriented.
"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."
~ Woodrow Wyatt
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.
~ Robert B. Fleming ~
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
"For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth;
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell."
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson, English poet laureate (1809 - 1892)
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"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
~Bill Cosby
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"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
~ Abraham Lincoln
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"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the
obstacles which he has overcome."
~ Booker T. Washington
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"To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice."
~ Confucius
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"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning
desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you
can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the
impossible we realize we are special people."
~ Jan Ashford
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"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has
got to get down to work."
~ Pearl Buck
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Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second,
by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest."
~ Confucius
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"I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line."
~ Andrew Carnegie
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"What we do not understand we do not possess."
~ Goeth
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
~ St. Augustine
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"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the
soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
~ Helen Keller
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"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just
watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."
~ Jackie Robinson
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"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always
part of unanimity."
~ Christopher Morley
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"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."
~ Christopher Morley
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"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's
own doing."
~ Marie Carmichael Stopes
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"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."
~ Vincent van Gogh
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."
~ Francis H. Bradley
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"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and
(b) how he treats people who can't fight back."
~ Abigail Van Buren
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"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
~ Mark Twain
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"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket
and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
~ Winston Churchill
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"It is good to love as many things as one can, for therein lies true strength, and those who love
much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well."
~ Vincent van Gogh
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"There is nothing so powerful as truth, -- and often nothing so strange."
~ Daniel Webster
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"If you want help, help others. If you want trust, trust others. If you want love, give it away.
If you want friends, be one. If you want a great team, be a great teammate. That's how it works."
~ Dan Zadra
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"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
~ Vincent van Gogh
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"The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the
creative works of the human spirit."
~ Ansel Adams
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"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
~ Ansel Adams
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"To be offended by the visual appearance of another person is prejudice, akin to racism.
The right to exist, uncovered, should hold precedence over the right not to view this, for
the objection is irrational."
~ Terri Webb
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"To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for
ideas that were true!"
~ H.L. Mencken - Mencken web page
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"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
~ C.S. Lewis
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"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live
taking the form of readiness to die."
~ G.K. Chesterton
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"Never in the face of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few."
~ Winston Churchill
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"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality
that guarantees all others"
~ Sir Winston S. Churchill
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"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty,
never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force;
never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
~ Winston Churchill
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"Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor."
~ Prime Minister Winston Churchill
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"You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves."
~ Winston Churchill
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"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
~ Winston Churchill
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"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
~ General George Patton Jr
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"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
~ General George Patton Jr
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"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."
~ General George Patton Jr
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"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."
~ General George Patton Jr
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
~ Aristotle
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"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."
~ Bob Dylan
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"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the
Earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so."
~ Bertrand Russell
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"God does not play dice with the universe."
~ Albert Einstein
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"It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape, and it
is the eye of the beholder that moves."
~ Thornton Wilder
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"I'm not the worrying type. Worriers never get anything done."
~ Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux
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"The act of observing a phenomenon changes its behavior."
~ Heisenberg uncertainty principle
"In 1926 German physicist Werner Heisenberg determined that it was
impossible to measure the trajectory of an electron hurtling through space.
Light waves were too big to cast a shadow of the tiny particle, and gamma
rays--which have a much smaller wavelength--were too powerful. As soon as
gamma rays struck the electron, they knocked it off its course. The very act
of observing the electron thus altered its behavior and contaminated the
experiment."
"Extrapolating from this phenomenon, Heisenberg formulated his famous
Uncertainty Principle, which states that there are some things, such as the
speed and trajectory of an electron, that we can never know for certain
because the very act of observing them changes the data."
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"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve
what they want to achieve."
~ Tom Landry
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"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is
play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
~ Albert Einstein
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"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in
season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring
for a single hour that which can be done just as well now."
~ P.T. Barnum
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"The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now."
~ Bill Cosby
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"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."
~ Maya Angelou
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"Think as you work--for in the final analysis, your worth to your company
comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them."
~Tom Lehrer
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"Success is dependent on effort."
~ Sophocles
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"To love is human, it is also human to forgive."
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
[Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]
- Mercator (II, 2, 46)
"That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one."
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
[Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et reddere nescit.]
- Persa (V, 1, 10) [Favors]
"Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman.
For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things
ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
[Lat., Negotii sibi qui volet vim parare,
Navem et mulierem, haec duo comparato.
Nam nullae magis res duae plus negotii
Habent, forte si occeperis exornare.
Neque unquam satis hae duae res ornantur,
Neque eis ulla ornandi satis satietas est.]
- Poenulus (I, 2, 1)
"Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend."
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
[Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.]
- Poenulus (III, 1, 1)
"Women have many faults, but of the many this is the greatest, that they please
themselves too much, and give too little attention to pleasing the men."
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
[Lat., Multa sunt mulierum vitia, sed hoc e multis maximum,
Cum sibi nimis placent, nimisque operam dant ut placeant viris.]
- Poenulus (V, 4, 33)
"A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well."
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
[Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]
- Truculentus (II, 5, 17)
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
(plô´tes) (Titus Maccius Plautus) , c.254-184 BC, Roman writer of comedies,
b. Umbria. His plays, adapted from those of Greek New Comedy, are popular
and vigorous representations of middle-class and lower-class life. Written
with a mastery of idiomatic spoken Latin and governed by a genius for
situation and coarse humor, Plautus' comedies achieved a great reputation.
Characteristic of his plays are the stock comic figures-the knavish,
resourceful slave, the young lover and his mistress, the courtesan, the
parasite, and the braggart soldier. His plots and characters have had great
influence upon later literature, with adaptations and imitations by many
writers, e.g., Molière, Corneille, Jonson, and Shakespeare. The
chronological order for Plautus' plays is unknown; 21, more or less
complete, survive: Amphitruo ( Amphitryon ), Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides,
Captivi, Casina, Cistellaria, Curculio, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercator, Miles
gloriosus, Mostellaria, Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Rudens, Stichus,
Trinummus, Truculentus, and Vidularia (in fragments).
Source: InfoPlease
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"What do you suppose will satisfy the soul except to walk free and own no superior?"
~ Walt Whitman
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"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what's going to happen next."
~ Gilda Radner
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"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation."
~ George Washington
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"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his
means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."
~ Norman Cousins
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"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?"
~ Marcel Marceau
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"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and
discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
~ Dale Carnegie
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"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
~ Eleanor Chaffee
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"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
~ Bertrand Russell
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"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
~ Winston Churchill
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
~ Albert Einstein
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"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him."
~ Booker T. Washington
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"We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know."
~W.H. Auden (As I Walked Out One Evening)
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"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures
and that is character."
~ Horace Greeley
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"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."
~ Vernon Howard
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself,
but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
~ Marcus Aurelius
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"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."
~ Plato
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"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."
~ Samuel Johnson
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"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."
"Only the shallow know themselves."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their good intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
~ Oscar Wilde
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself,
but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
Marcus Aurelius
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"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius."
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone
else do it wrong without comment."
~ Theodore H. White
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"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
~ Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
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"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: sincerity, personal integrity, humility,
courtesy, wisdom, charity."
~ William Menninger
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"Everything that has a beginning comes to an end."
~ Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."
~ Tom Stoppard
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"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage."
~ Publius Syrus
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"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
~ Vincent Va Goghn
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"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble
than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
~ Michelangelo
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"The things we fear most in organizations--fluctuations, disturbances,
imbalances--are the primary sources of creativity."
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
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"Worry is a misuse of imagination."
~Dan Zadra
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"In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence,
and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you. If you hire
somebody without the first, you really want them to be dumb and lazy."
~ Warren Buffett
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"There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake."
~ Duke of Wellington
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
~ Winston Churchill
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"Change is one thing, progress is another. "Change" is scientific, "progress" is ethical;
change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy."
~ Bertrand Russell
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"Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life."
~ Wilma Rudolph
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"Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward."
~ Mark Twain
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"If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities,
industry will supply their deficiency."
~ Sir Joshua Reynolds
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"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."
~ Charles M. Schulz
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Always design a thing by considering it in its next-larger context--a chair in a room,
a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."
~ Eliel Saarinen
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
~ Mark Twain
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"I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and ale.
If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere
and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.
I know it's crazy."
~ J.D. Salinger
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"Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man’s
enjoyment of his cigar."
~ Mark Twain
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"They had no good cigars there, my lord; and I left the place in disgust."
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, returning from Venice"
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"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar.
That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
~ Winston Churchill
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"I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time."
~ Mark Twain
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"A cigar ought not to be smoked solely with the mouth, but with the hand, the eyes, and with the spirit."
~ Zino Davidoff
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"Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble."
~ Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832
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"Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds
everything evil, and still more the man who is indifferent to
everything."
~ Johann K. Lavater
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"It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity."
~ Albert Einstein
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"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."
~ George Bernard Shaw (1856--1950)
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
~ George Santayana (1863--1952), "The Life of Reason, Volume 1," 1905
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"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something
and finding something else on the way."
~ Franklin P. Adams
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"It ain’t the heat; it’s the humility."
~ Yogi Berra
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but
more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
~ George Bernard Shaw
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your
riches, but to reveal to him his own."
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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"Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the
golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty."
~ Mark Twain
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
~ Aesop
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"Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing."
~ Wernher von Braun
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"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your
learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it
out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
~ Lord Chesterfield
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"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while
others judge us by what we have already done."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
~ G.K. Chesterton
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"Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back."
~ Thomas Sowell
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"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."
~Josh Billings
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"Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength."
~Eric Hoffer
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"Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone."
~ Gertrude Stein
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What is courage? You decide:
"Courage is one step ahead of fear." ~ Coleman Young
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers." ~ Dorothy Bernard
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." ~ George S. Patton
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that
something else is more important than fear." ~ Ambrose Redmoon
Ambrose Redmoon…here is a description that his daughter gave of him in the "Chicago Tribune" newspaper –
"My father was a beatnik and from the beatnik scene he went on to the hippie scene. He couldn’t go back
to the straight world because he was so outrageous. He never really fit in anywhere. He said things
that really blew people away. Everywhere he would try and publish his writings, they found him too wild."
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"Dear Lady be cautious of Cupid,
List well to the lines of this verse,
To be kissed by a fool is stupid,
To be fooled by a kiss is worse"
~ Ambrose Redmoon
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"You cannot control what you cannot measure."
~ DeMarco 1982
You can neither predict nor control what you cannot measure
~ Fenton’s and Pfleeger’s corollary to DeMarch’s Rule
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"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless
you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea
unless it is presented to them by a good salesman."
~ David M. Ogilvy
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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to
learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for
their apparent disinclination to do so."
~ Douglas Adams
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" ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops—at all."
~ Emily Dickinson
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"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
~ Andy Warhol
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"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."
~ Harrison Ford
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"The person who knows ‘how’ will always have a job. The person
who knows ‘why’ will always be his boss."
~ Diane Ravitch
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"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people:
those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group;
there was less competition there."
~ Indira Gandhi
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"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
~ Thomas Carruthers
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"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."
~ Father Jerome Cummings
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"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
~ Winston Churchill
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"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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"If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection.
It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone.
Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before."
~ Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992
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"Whenever you’re asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’
Then get busy and find out how to do it."
~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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Questioning…
"Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
~ Voltaire
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"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
~ James Thurber
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"Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them."
~ David Reisman
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"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."
~ Wilson Mizner
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"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
~ Mignon McLaughlin
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"A fool judges people by the presents they give him."
~ Chinese Proverb
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"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?"
~ Albert Einstein
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"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Expectation is the root of all heartache."
~ William Shakespeare
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"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
~ William Shakespeare
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"How long a time lies in one little word?"
~ William Shakespeare
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"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"
~ William Shakespeare
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"I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars."
~ William Shakespeare
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"If music be the food of love, play on."
~ William Shakespeare
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"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me."
~ William Shakespeare
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"If you prick us do we not bleed?
If you tickle us do we not laugh?
If you poison us do we not die?
And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
~ William Shakespeare
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"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids,
but the sky changes when they are wives."
~ William Shakespeare
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"My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
~ William Shakespeare
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"O, had I but followed the arts!"
~ William Shakespeare
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"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow."
~ William Shakespeare
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"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is
to the soul what the water-bath is to the body."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Talking isn't doing It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."
~ William Shakespeare
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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
~ William Shakespeare
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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
~ William Shakespeare
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"The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones."
~ William Shakespeare
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
~ William Shakespeare
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"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
~ William Shakespeare
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"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."
~ William Shakespeare
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"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."
~ William Shakespeare
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"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
~ William Shakespeare
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"The object of art is to give life a shape."
~ William Shakespeare
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"The valiant never taste of death but once."
~ William Shakespeare
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"The will of man is by his reason swayed."
~ William Shakespeare
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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
~ William Shakespeare
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"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."
~ William Shakespeare
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"They do not love that do not show their love."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all."
~ William Shakespeare
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"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."
~ William Shakespeare
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"'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall."
~ William Shakespeare
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"To be, or not to be: that is the question."
~ William Shakespeare
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"To fear the worst oft cures the worse."
~ William Shakespeare
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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then
be false to any man."
~ William Shakespeare
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"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from...
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved
into their elements."
~ William Shakespeare
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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
~ William Shakespeare
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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
~ William Shakespeare
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
~ William Shakespeare
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"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?"
~ William Shakespeare
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"Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."
~ William Shakespeare
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"Your 'if' is the only peace-maker; much virtue in 'if'."
~ William Shakespeare
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The 7 Archangels
From the Sefer Yetzirah, the Book of Creation, Aryeh Kaplan
Kaptziel
Tzidkiel
Samael
Raphael
Anathiel
Michael
Gabriel
Judaism and Christianity recognize seven archangels: Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Uriel and three others
whose names are uncertain - a source of debate by theologians for centuries. They are thought of to
be three from the following list of possible candidates: Raziel, Remiel, Sariel, Metatron, Anael,
Raguil, Barakiel, Barbiel, Chamael, Jophiel, Zadkiel, Jeduhiel, Simael, Zaphiel, and Aniel.
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"Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil,
and still more the man who is indifferent to
everything."
~ Johann K. Lavater
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"It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity."
~ Albert Einstein
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."
~ George Bernard Shaw (1856--1950)
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
~ George Santayana (1863--1952), "The Life of Reason, Volume 1," 1905
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"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and
finding something else on the way."
~ Franklin P. Adams
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"It ain't the heat; it's the humility."
~ Yogi Berra
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
~ George Bernard Shaw
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for
acquiring the habit of doing your duty."
~ Mark Twain
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
~ Aesop
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"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing."
~ Wernher von Braun
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"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your
learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it
out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
~ Lord Chesterfield
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"Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant;
but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured."
~ Indian Proverb
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"But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean,
who is neither tarnished nor afraid ... He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase,
a man of honor--by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it,
and certainly without saying it."
~ Raymond Chandler, "A Simple Art of Murder"
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"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger.' Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself.' Yes, that's it."
~ Linus Torvalds
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"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."
~ Van Morrison
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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
~ Mark Twain
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"The way to succeed is to double your error rate."
~ Thomas J. Watson
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"Never confuse movement with action."
~ Ernest Hemingway
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"Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence."
~ Francis Jeffrey
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"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."
~ Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)
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"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
~ Stephen Covey
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"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm,
and three or more is a congress."
~ John Adams, in the movie "1776"
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
~ Philip K. Dick
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"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
~ Walt Disney
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"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
~ Elbert Hubbard
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"The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself
as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend
only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religion."
~ Albert Einstein
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"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."
~ Jonathan Swift
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"Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves."
~ Larry McMurtry in "Lonesome Dove"
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
~ Scott Adams
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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
~ Helen Keller
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"Amatuers practice until they get it right,
professionals practice until they can't get it wrong!"
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"When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness."
~ Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.
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"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
~ Francis Bacon
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