15 Feb , 2011
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things. Great short quote and quotation by: Unknown , Quotations by unknown authors
15 Feb , 2011
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of […]
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15 Feb , 2011
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us […]
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27 Apr , 2010
You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise […]
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Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House 5
27 Apr , 2010
You know what I say to people when I hear they?re writing an anti-war book?? I say, “why don?t you write an anti-glacier book instead?” What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. Great short quote and quotation […]
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11 Jan , 2010
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Great short quote and quotation by: Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774 , Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797)
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