December 2010
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The ability to retain a child’s view of the world with at the same time a...
– Mortimer J. Adler (How to Read a Book)
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You only lose what you cling to.
– Siddhārtha Gautama (Buddha)
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I don’t understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian...
– Dean Ornish
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The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being...
– Mother Teresa (A Simple Path: Mother Teresa)
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The ability to retain a child’s view of the world with at the same time a...
– Mortimer J. Adler (How to Read a Book)
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I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
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You only lose what you cling to.
– Siddhārtha Gautama (Buddha)
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If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to...
– Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say...
– Khalil Gibran
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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
– Gloria Steinem
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Woman’s degradation is in man’s idea of his sexual rights. Our...
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a...
– Brigham Young
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Every now and then, I’ll run into someone who claims not to like...
– Steve Almond
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
– Aristotle
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I have a friend request from some stranger on Facebook and I delete it without...
– David Levithan (Will Grayson, Will Grayson)
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Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour...
– Jaron Lanier (You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto)
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I have a friend request from some stranger on Facebook and I delete it without...
– David Levithan (Will Grayson, Will Grayson)
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Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour...
– Jaron Lanier (You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto)
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Every now and then, I’ll run into someone who claims not to like...
– Steve Almond
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Notes from the Underground)
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human...
– Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
– Leo Tolstoy
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
– Roald Dahl
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Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
– Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)
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‘Well, you’re expelling us aren’t you?’ said Ron....
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
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The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls...
– George Carlin
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The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out...
– John Cleese
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The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out...
– John Cleese
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‘Well, you’re expelling us aren’t you?’ said Ron....
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
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The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls...
– George Carlin
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But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize,...
– Neil Gaiman (Dream Country)
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Humour is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your...
– L.M. Montgomery
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Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only...
– Eminem
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Making paper with slave labor
And hitting little kids with life time bids...
– Lupe Fiasco (Conflict Diamonds)
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Making paper with slave labor
And hitting little kids with life time bids...
– Lupe Fiasco (Conflict Diamonds)
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Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only...
– Eminem
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True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and...
– Henry David Thoreau
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;...
– Confucius
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Prince Zuko: But I don’t feel any shame at all! I’m as proud as...
– Avatar: The Last Airbender
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My father always used to say, ‘Don’t raise your voice. Improve your...
– Desmond Tutu
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Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons,...
– Dave Barry
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There’s always some room for improvisation.
– Satyajit Ray
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There’s always some room for improvisation.
– Satyajit Ray
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose...
– Søren Kierkegaard (Either - Or)