15 Feb , 2011
We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but […]
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John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
15 Feb , 2011
We find that after years of struggle we do not take a journey, but rather a journey takes us. Great short quote and quotation by: John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley , US novelist (1902 – 1968)
Sir Arthur Eddington, Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920
15 Feb , 2011
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir Arthur Eddington, Space, Time, […]
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15 Feb , 2011
We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. Great short quote and quotation by: W. Somerset Maugham , English dramatist & novelist (1874 – 1965)
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15 Feb , 2011
We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity. Great short quote and quotation by: Kabbalah ,
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15 Feb , 2011
We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so. Great short quote […]
15 Feb , 2011
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Carlyle , Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)
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15 Feb , 2011
When President Bush invaded Iraq after 911 it was like Truman invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor. Great short quote and quotation by: John Kerry, Debate , US Democratic politician (1943 – )
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15 Feb , 2011
When women go wrong, men go right after them. Great short quote and quotation by: Mae West , US movie actress (1892 – 1980)
15 Feb , 2011
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. Great short quote and quotation by: Leigh Hunt , English author & editor (1784 – 1859)
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15 Feb , 2011
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home?so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where […]
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15 Feb , 2011
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he […]
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