Anon

"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better."

George Orwell

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.


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Doyle Brunson

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb...that's where the fruit is"

Pablo Picasso

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself.

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Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

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Billie Holiday

"Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough."

Rosa Parks

"I have not had a quiet life, and I really could live without this publicity. I just want to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted others to be free."

Elizabeth Stone

"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body."

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Author Unknown

"Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. "

Victor Borge

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people. "

Steven Spielberg

" Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make. "

Abraham Lincoln

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln

"Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

Martin Luther King, Jr

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

Mark Twain

"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century."

Emily Dickinson

"Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God's residence is next to min,
His furniture is love."

C.S. Lewis

"Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone."

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."

Mother Teresa

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. "

Albert Einstein

"You can't blame gravity for falling in love. "

Unknown

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Leonard Nimoy (as Mr Spock)

"As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy, than to create. "

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Those who sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

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Scott Adams (The Dilbert Principle)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Yogi Berra

It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.

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Zephram Cochrane

"Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgment." - While speaking in Bozeman, Montana circa 2073

Stephen Jay Gould

"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."

Galileo Galilei

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."

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Mark Twain

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

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Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

Dr. Seuss

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

Helen Keller

“Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within.”

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Lisa T. Shepherd

“In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.”

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Thomas Edison

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Paul Shepard

What people notice, what they expect to encounter, the mixes of senses used, even the quality of their inattention and disregard all reveal something about the kind of world it is for them.

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Jean Kerr

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want -- an adorable pancreas?~