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Helen Keller on Security: "...It does not exist in nature..."

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:55:45 GMT

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller

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Latin sayings

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:17:04 GMT

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Usus magister est optimus. -- "Practice makes perfect."

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Absentem laedit, qui cum ebrio litigat.--"He who quarrels with a drunk hurts an absentee."

Ars longa, vita brevis. -- "Art is long, life is short.

Asinus asinorum in saecula saeculorum. -- "The greatest jackass in eternity."

Bona valetudo melior est quam maximae divitiae. "Good health is worth more than the greatest wealth."

Carpe diem -- "Use the day" or "Seize the day"

Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis. -- "There's no herb against the power of death.

Divide et impera. -- "Divide and conquer.

Fide, sed qui, vide. -- "Trust but take care whom."

Habent sua fata libelli. -- "Books have their fate."
Hodie mihi, cras tibi. -- "What's to me today, tomorrow to you."
Homines quod volunt credunt. -- "Men believe what they want to."
Homo homini lupus est. -- "Man is a wolf to man."
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. "I am human, so nothing that is human is foreign to me."

Homines quod volunt credunt. -- "Men believe what they want to."

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Classic Quotes by William Shakespeare

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:29:27 GMT

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This Day in History, April 23

April 23rd, 1616 marks the death of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes.

Classic Quotes by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English writer

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that makes it.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

LOVE & WIERDNESS

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:45:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ALL ARTISTS PLEASE TAKE ONE STEP FORWARD OUT OF THE SUPPOSED "NORMAL" LINE, AND IDENTIFY

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"When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love." Robert Fulghum

Computer viruses and Human nature

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:14:39 GMT

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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
- Stephen Hawking

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Aren't People Absurd!

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:47:20 GMT

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aren't people absurd!

Aren't people absurd! They never use the freedoms they do have but demand those they don't have; they have freedom of thought, but demand freedom of speech.

--Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (Diapsalmata)

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Andre Gide Quotes

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:15:27 GMT

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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Andre Gide

5 cool Quotations by Thomas Jefferson

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:43:16 GMT

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1606-1827

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"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred."

"the two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice & fear. after the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us . . . ."

"yet the hour of emancipation is advancing . . . this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. it shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man."

"What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose."

"bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education & free discussion are the antidotes of both."

Proverbs-Bulgaria

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:53:20 GMT

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A gentle word opens an iron gate.
Source: (Bulgarian) God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.
Source: (Bulgarian) If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.
Source: (Bulgarian) If you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid.
Source: (Bulgarian) If you can't be good, be careful.
Source: (Bulgarian) If you can't beat em, join em.
Source: (Bulgarian) If you let everyone walk over you, you become a carpet.
Source: (Bulgarian) If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.
Source: (Bulgarian) Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Source: (Bulgarian) When the sea turned into honey, the poor man lost his spoon.
Source: (Bulgarian) You are permitted in times of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.
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Sometimes someone says something...

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:04:50 GMT

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"I can't do it" never accomplished anything..

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:23:04 GMT

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"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
Anonymous

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
Mary Kay Ash

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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Diminished by Words

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:33:06 GMT

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"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revalations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear."

- Stephen King

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Mathematicians are odd

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:07:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Disclaimer:
I have nothing against mathematicians - I'd like to add: nothing efficacious, in any case.
One of my mathematics teachers was extremely odd - but I venerated and adored him!
Another mathematics teacher of mine was a prick, and I feared and hated him. But he was neither a good mathematician nor odd.

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
- Plato, Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
- Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)

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In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
- Johann von Neumann, US (Hungarian-born) computer scientist, mathematician (1903 - 1957)

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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein, US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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Classic Quotes By Agnes Repplier

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:46:13 GMT

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Classic Quotes by Agnes Repplier (1858-1950) American writer

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Why I Left America

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:12:23 GMT

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"The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."

U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, quoted in the

, April 9, 1944