April 2011
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“Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
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“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his...”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
– Laozi (Tao Te Ching)
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“LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another’s...”
– Ambrose Bierce
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“It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of...”
– Edward W. Said
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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And...”
– Robert Frost (The Road Not Taken)
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“Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you...”
– Nicholas Sparks (At First Sight)
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“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
– George Carlin
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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can...”
– Stephen W. Hawking
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“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been...”
– Amy Bloom
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“And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.”
– Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales)
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“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is...”
– Denis Waitley
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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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“Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day...”
– One Tree Hill
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“Captain: Surrender yourselves! It’s five against two. You’re clearly...”
– Avatar: The Last Airbender
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“The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that … women...”
– Louise Otto
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“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to...”
– Robert F. Kennedy
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“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement,...”
– Albert Camus
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“This wasn’t food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to...”
– Terry Pratchett (The Wee Free Men)
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“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are...”
– M. Scott Peck
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“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s...”
– George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)
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“I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of...”
– Hugh Hamilton
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“Don’t strew me with roses after I’m dead.
When Death claims the...”
– Thomas F. Healey
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“A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.”
– Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)
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“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”
– Bill Gates
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“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anais Nin
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“Music, when soft voices die
Vibrates in the memory -”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic...”
– Rollo May
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“The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.”
– James Yorke
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“Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up...”
– Eda LeShan
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“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us,...”
– Henri Nouwen
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“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to...”
– Theodore Rubin
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“Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee...”
– Mary Kay Ash
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“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary...”
– Hans Hofmann
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“Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake,...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with...”
– Maya Angelou
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“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery...”
– Norman Cousins
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“Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2%...”
– Dennis Prager
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“We are all something, but none of us are everything.”
– Blaise Pascal
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“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the...”
– Winston Churchill
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“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,...”
– Aldous Huxley
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“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty,...”
– Bruce Lee 