James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002
15 Feb , 2011
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things?[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. Great short […]
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15 Feb , 2011
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that […]
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15 Feb , 2011
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. Great short quote and quotation by: Epictetus, Discourses , Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD – 135 AD)
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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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15 Feb , 2011
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Great short quote and quotation by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)
15 Feb , 2011
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Great short quote and quotation by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)
15 Feb , 2011
When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls? Great short quote and quotation by: Nicolas Martin ,
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15 Feb , 2011
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. Great short quote and quotation by: Peter De Vries ,
15 Feb , 2011
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions. Great short quote and […]
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15 Feb , 2011
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir Winston Churchill , British politician (1874 – 1965)
15 Feb , 2011
When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder. Great short quote and quotation by: David Brower ,
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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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