15 Feb , 2011
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. Great short quote and quotation by: H. G. Wells , English author, historian, & utopian (1866 – 1946)
15 Feb , 2011
When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, […]
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Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
15 Feb , 2011
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. Great short quote and quotation by: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman ,
Unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
15 Feb , 2011
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. Great short quote and quotation by: unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949 , Quotations by unknown authors
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15 Feb , 2011
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 12 tons. Great short quote and quotation by: Popular Mechanics, March 1949 ,
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John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
15 Feb , 2011
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? — John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963. Great short quote and quotation by: John F. Kennedy, “A Thousand Days,” by […]
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15 Feb , 2011
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. Great short quote and quotation by: George Orwell , English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 – 1950)
15 Feb , 2011
Whoso neglects learning in his youth,Loses the past and is dead for the future. Great short quote and quotation by: Euripides, Phrixus , Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC – 406 BC)
27 Apr , 2010
You can never plan the future by the past. Great short quote and quotation by: Edmund Burke , Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797)