"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." - Mark Twain
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Quote
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece." - Ludwig Erhard
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Ludwig Erhard
Motivational
"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." - James Thurber
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James Thurber
Motivational
"When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life." - Anna Quindlen
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Anna Quindlen
Quote
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." - Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
Motivational
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday, March 1, 2013
Motivational
"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." - Kathleen Norris
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Kathleen Norris
Funny
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Claud Cockburn
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Claud Cockburn
Thought
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth." - Lillian Hellman
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Lillian Hellman
Quote
"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous." - Henry Ford
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Henry Ford
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Funny
"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." - Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
Motivational
"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." - Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Thought
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." - William Blake
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William Blake
Quote
"Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One." - Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Quote
"What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth." - Jewish Proverb
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Jewish Proverb
Funny
"I'm a jerk to everyone. Best way to protect yourself from lawsuits." - David Hoselton
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David Hoselton
Love
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." - Mitch Albom
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Mitch Albom
Motivational
"Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade." - George Eliot
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George Eliot
Thought
"We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it." - Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Thought
"Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child." - Mary MacCracken
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Mary MacCracken
Motivational
"Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself." - Audrey Giorgi
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Audrey Giorgi
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Funny
"A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars." - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Thought
"Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life." - Anne Hathaway
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Anne Hathaway
Quote
"Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things." - Daniel Craig
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Daniel Craig
Motivational
"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." - J. G. Holland
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J. G. Holland
Motivational
"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." - Anatole France
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Anatole France
Love
"I know love and lust don't always keep the same company." - Stephenie Meyer
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Stephenie Meyer
Quote
"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers." - John Le Carre
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John Le Carre
Thought
"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life." - Bertolt Brecht
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Bertolt Brecht
Funny
"Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?" - Richard Feynman
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Richard Feynman
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Funny
"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid." - Art Spander
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Art Spander
Motivational
"Some people make headlines while others make history." - Philip Elmer-DeWitt
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Quote
"Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the man in which he behaves toward fools." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Funny
"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." - Robert Frost
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Robert Frost
Funny
"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in." - Bradley's Bromide
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Bradley's Bromide
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Funny
"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?" - Laurence J. Peter
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Laurence J. Peter
Thought
"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." - Juan Ramon Jiminez
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Juan Ramon Jiminez
Thought
"Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination. - Bill Watterson
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Bill Watterson
Quote
"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow." - Jerry Chin
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Jerry Chin
Motivational
"You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it, period." - Steven Conrad
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Steven Conrad
Funny
"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other." - Jack Handey
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Jack Handey
Monday, January 28, 2013
Motivational
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman
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Doris Mortman
Thought
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." - Franklin P. Jones
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Franklin P. Jones
Quote
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate." - George Burns
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George Burns
Funny
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Friday, January 25, 2013
Motivational
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Thought
"The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame." - Rod Steiger
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Rod Steiger
Funny
"In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation." - Roger Allen
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Roger Allen
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Motivational
"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Thought
"Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend." - Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Quote
"People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort." - David Shore
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David Shore
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Funny
"You traded in your iPhone 4 for an extra half inch? Hope your girlfriend doesn't do the same." - Hussein Nishah
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Hussein Nishah
Motivational
"The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for." - Dan Millman
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Dan Millman
Thought
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein
Quote
"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men." - Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad
Monday, January 21, 2013
Motivational
"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur
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Louis Pasteur
Thought
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." - Clarence Darrow
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Clarence Darrow
Quote
"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?" - Philip G. Hamerton
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Philip G. Hamerton
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