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What lies behind us and what lies b…

15 Feb , 2011  

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great short quote and quotation by: Emerson ,

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What lies behind us and what lies b…

15 Feb , 2011  

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

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Norbert Wiener

What most experimenters take for gr…

15 Feb , 2011  

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. Great short quote and quotation by: Norbert Wiener ,

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What would the world do without tea…

15 Feb , 2011  

What would the world do without tea? – how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. Great short quote and quotation by: Sydney Smith , English essayist (1771 – 1845)

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Thomas Jefferson, Writings

When angry, count ten before you sp…

15 Feb , 2011  

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Jefferson, Writings , 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)

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Jacob Riis

When nothing seems to help, I go an…

15 Feb , 2011  

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all […]

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Jerry Scott, Baby Blues: Ten Years and Still in Diapers

Where did they put pictures, comic …

15 Feb , 2011  

Where did they put pictures, comic strips, and coupons before they invented the refrigerator door? Great short quote and quotation by: Jerry Scott, Baby Blues: Ten Years and Still in Diapers ,

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Michael Jordan

You have to expect things of yourse…

27 Apr , 2010  

You have to expect things of yourself before you do them. Great short quote and quotation by: Michael Jordan , US basketball player (1963 – )

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Agatha Christie

Your travel life has the aspect of …

11 Jan , 2010  

Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing… But you are like the Vikings who […]

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Confucius

[The superior man] acts before he s…

11 Jan , 2010  

[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions. Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius, The Confucian Analects , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

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