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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -Howard Aiken
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within. -Ramona L. Anderson
Treat a virus with antibiotics and you get better in 7 days. Do nothing and you are better in a week. - Anonymous
The cost of living is dying. - Anonymous
Intellect is a tool of the will. - Anonymous
Will you remember my name, when we pass each other in the streets? Will you call out, stop and talk to me, or will you just walk on by as if you hadn't noticed me standing there, staring at you, tears thick as blood pouring down my face, crying out for someone to help me, pleading for you to rescue me, as I slowly drown in my lonely pain? - Anonymous
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -Walter Bagehot
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. -John Barrymore
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. -Claude Bernard
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -Derek Bok
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - Buddhist Proverb
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. -Thomas Carlyle
Sometimes its not enough to do your best; you have to do what is required. -Sir Winston Churchill
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities. -Arthur C. Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C. Clarke
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. -Norman Cousins
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. -Rene Descartes
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. -Sir William Drummond
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. -Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. -Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. -Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -Albert Einstein
When I discover who I am, I'll be free. -Ralph Ellison
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive. -Peter Gabriel
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -Mahatma Gandhi
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gaultier
Adults are obsolete children and the hell with them. -Theodor Seuss Geisel
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. -Natalie Goldberg
Ultimately time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savor it. -Ellen Goodman
I begin to suspect that a man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom. -Nathaniel Hawthorne
I'm old enough to know better, but I'm still too young to care. -Wade Hayes
By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind. -Claude-Adrien Helvetius
The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye: the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. -Oliver Wendelll Holmes
The believer is happy. The doubter is wise. - Hungarian Proverb
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. -Thomas Henry Huxley
As evening draws near, you regret that you did not practice early in the morning. The worldly pleasure which you enjoy now becomes suffering in the future. Why then are you attached to this pleasure? One moment of practice becomes lasting pleasure. Why then do you not practice? -Won Hyo
One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. - Italian Proverb
A great many people believe they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -William James
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. -Sam Keen
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. -Robert F. Kennedy
People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones. -Charles Kettering
I am a part of all I have read. -John Kieran
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. -Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Too often... I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. -Louis L'Amour
The key to immortality is living a life worth remembering. -Bruce Lee
It never gets easier, you just go faster. -Greg LeMond
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. -A. J. Liebling
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him as the destroyer of liberty. -Abraham Lincoln
If you were born where they were born, and you were taught what they were taught, you'd believe what they believe. -Abraham Lincoln
Television is about watching a life instead of having one. -Beth Mazur
To a visiting diplomat; "Don't be so humble - you are not that great." -Golda Meir
In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible. -Eddy Merckx
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. -Kenji Miyazawa
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? -Mary Manin Morrissey
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -Iris Murdoch
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. -George S. Patton
If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking. -George S. Patton Jr.
We never remember days, only moments. -Cesare Pavese
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived. -M. Scott Peck
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. -Robert Pirsig
To believe everything or to doubt everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for reflection. -Jules Henri Poincare
I used to believe in forever, but forever was too good to be true. -Winnie the Pooh
We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live another's idea of life. -James Van Praagh
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. -Ayn Rand
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -Stephen Roberts
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him. -Jim Samuels
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. -George Santayana
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. -Arthur Schopenhauer
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. -Delmore Schwartz
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. - Seneca
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. -George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. -George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -George Bernard Shaw
If you are never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances. -Julia Soul
The bitterest words ever said over graves are for deeds undone and words left unsaid. -H. B. Stowe
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few. -Shunryu Suzuki
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. -Henry David Thoreau
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J. R. R. Tolkien
No matter how far you've gone on a wrong road, turn back. - Turkish Proverb
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - Unknown
You're less likely to die while sitting home in your armchair. Also less likely to live. - Unknown
Through the perception of illusions we perceive reality. - Unknown
The act leading to conception involves half a billion sperm: Long ago each of us overcame the toughest odds we'll ever face. Life itself is a comparative afterthought, a bonus, a casual cooling-off chat in the post-game locker room. Had I learned this sooner, I might have lightened up a bit. - Unknown
Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong. - Unknown
Caring is the most hazardous of human experiences because it means choosing to be vulnerable. - Unknown
Some people ask me why I run. I then ask them why they breath. - Unknown
Your greatness is only limited by how much pain you are willing to endure. - Unknown
Do today what others will not, so that you may do tomorrow what others can not. - Unknown
The question isn't how much more can you take, but how much more can you give. Just when you're ready to quit your mind says push harder. You listen sensing an inner strength that wasn't there before. And suddenly you discover -- you no longer feel the pain. Now you know. Now you're one of us. - Unknown
Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road. - Unknown
If I'm not lying on the ground after a race, please hit me with a board because I didn't run hard enough. - Unknown
Some people listen to themselves rather than listen to what others say. These people don't come along very often. But when they do, they remind us that once you set out in a path, even though critics may doubt you, it's okay to believe that there is no can't, won't or impossible. They remind us that it is okay to believe Impossible is Nothing. - Unknown
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. -Jesse Ventura
When I thought I was learning to live, I was learning to die. -Leonardo da Vinci
On his deathbed, in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan; "Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies." - Voltaire
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. - Voltaire
Common Sense is not so common. - Voltaire
He who hesitates is a damned fool. -Mae West
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. -E. B. White
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. -Ron Wild
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
Maintaining the status-quo is the same as regressing; while you are holding your own, others are passing you by. Be harsh on yourself. Do not ever think that you have made it; do not ever be satisfied by what you have done. Drive yourself for the rest of your life. If you do not move, you become paralyzed. Develop your potential to the fullest, for you, too, can wake the sleeping genius at will. -Kim Woo-Choong
Never mistake activity for achievement. -John Wooden
I did not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. - Zhuangzi
I cannot tell if what the world considers "happiness" is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness. - Zhuangzi