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| Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| Humankind cannot stand very much reality. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| The last temptation is the greatest treason to do the right deed for the wrong reason. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| Humor is also a way of saying something serious. |
T. S. Eliot |
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| When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings |
William C. Bagley |
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| In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. |
Paul Eldridge |
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| Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. |
Paul Eldridge |
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| We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. |
R. D. Laing |
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| Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. |
R. D. Laing |
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| To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning. |
R. D. Laing |
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| Adversity cause some men to break others to break records. |
William A. Ward |
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| RICHER THAN GOLDYou may have tangible wealth untoldCaskets of jewels and coffers of gold.Richer than I you can never be --I had a mother who read to me. |
Strickland Gillilan |
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| Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. |
George Washington |
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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. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. |
George Washington |
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| Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. |
George Washington |
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| Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. |
George Washington |
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| To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. |
George Washington |
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| To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody. |
George Washington |
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| Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man. |
George Washington |
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| Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. |
George Washington |
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| True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. |
George Washington |
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| Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. |
George Washington |
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| The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government. |
George Washington |
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| 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. |
George Washington |
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| Differences in political opinion are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary. |
George Washington |
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| The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. |
George Washington |
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| Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. |
George Washington |
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| As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. |
George Washington |
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| It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. |
George Washington |
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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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| A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. |
Jerry Seinfeld |
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| The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be. |
Jerry Seinfeld |
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| Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. |
Jerry Seinfeld |
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| There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. |
Jerry Seinfeld |
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| It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. |
Jerry Seinfeld |
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| Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. |
Charlie Finley |
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| You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. |
John Morley |
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| Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. |
John Morley |
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| They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. |
John Morley |
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| If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. |
Carl Sagan |
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| Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. |
Carl Sagan |
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| When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it. |
Carl Sagan |
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| All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. |
Carl Sagan |
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| Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. |
Carl Sagan |
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| But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. |
Carl Sagan |
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| We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. |
Carl Sagan |
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| They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. |
Carl Sagan |
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| I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. |
Carl Sagan |
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| It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. |
Carl Sagan |
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| Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. |
Carl Sagan |
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| A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. |
Carl Sagan |
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| If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits |
Carl Sagan |
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| Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. |
Carl Sagan |
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| The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. |
A. J. Liebling |
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| I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. |
A. J. Liebling |
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| People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. |
A. J. Liebling |
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| I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. |
A. J. Liebling |
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| Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. |
A. J. Liebling |
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| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that dont work. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| There is no substitute for hard work. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Results Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Great ideas originate in the muscles. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare |
Blair Houghton |
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| Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. |
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve |
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| Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. |
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve |
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| In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. |
Desiderius Erasmus |
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| Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. |
Desiderius Erasmus |
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| It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. |
Desiderius Erasmus |
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| War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. |
Desiderius Erasmus |
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| When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food. |
Desiderius Erasmus |
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| The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. |
Desiderius Erasmus |
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| Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters. |
Desiderius Erasmus |
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| The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight. |
Desiderius Erasmus |
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| In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In regione caecorum rex est luscus. |
Desiderius Erasmus |
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| Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. |
Ovid |
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| All things change, nothing perishes. |
Ovid |
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| Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. |
Ovid |
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| It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are. |
Ovid |
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| Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. |
Ovid |
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