We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love. Great short quote and quotation by: Andre Maurois , French author (1885 – 1967)
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human […]
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Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, September 10
We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us?it simply reveals what we are made of already. Great short quote and quotation by: Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, September 10 ,
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. Great short quote and quotation by: Author Unknown ,
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Camus , French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 – 1960)
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. Great short quote and quotation by: Horace, Satires , Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC – 8 BC)
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678)
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. Great short quote and quotation by: Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678) , French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. Great short quote and quotation by: Harold Bloom , US author, critic, educator, & scholar (1930 – )
We rise in glory as we sink in pride. Great short quote and quotation by: Young ,
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. Great short quote and quotation by: Thucydides, Peloponnesian War , Greek historian (471 BC – 400 BC)
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming. Great short quote and quotation by: Don Delillo ,
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is […]
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