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To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.
William Henry ChanningEach experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
Raymond HolliwellThe remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Eric HofferLook at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless.
George LucasIt is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
Sidney MadwedGenealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
Nicolas MartinI know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Rene DescartesABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.
Ambrose BierceThere is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Frank HerbertSome compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because "They're not efficient." (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.)
Kernighan & Plauger - The Elements of Programming StyleA liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins.
Heywood BrounPlain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Katharine Hepburn..nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been short lived where as adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years.
George OrwellIn fiction's grip, we may mortage our homes, sell our children, to have whatever it is we crave.
Salmaan RushdieWhenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Leigh HuntThe first duty of love is to listen.
Paul TillichA book holds a house of gold.
Chinese ProverbIn all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.
Jane Austen[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.
Dan QuayleGOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.
Ambrose BierceMy mom is the most famous thing about my video blog. Everyone likes moms. People enjoy watching people's family.
Schlomo RabinowitzOld age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
Joe GoresWhere large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha ChristieI am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.
Everett DirksenConscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
Evan Esar