January 2012
2 posts
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“Man is free if he needs to obey no person but solely the laws.”
– Immanuel Kant
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“Nothing human is alien to me.”
– Terentius
December 2011
6 posts
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“A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two...”
– William Faulkner
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“If you think you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog...”
– - Cowboy Wisdom
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“To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be...”
– Thomas Henry Huxley
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“Don’t strive to make your presence noticed, make your absence felt.”
– Anonymous
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“He who has a why can endure any how.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
November 2011
25 posts
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“To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”
– Paul Valéry
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“A man’s accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.”
– Michel de Montaigne
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“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving...”
– Lin Yutang
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“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
– A. A. Milne
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“The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.”
– Napoleon Hill
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“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”
– Lin Yutang
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“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
– Dorothy Parker
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“Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough.”
– Robert Heller
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“An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea...”
– Umberto Eco
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“It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”
– Edwin Land
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“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.”
– Charles F. Kettering
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“I start where the last man left off.”
– Thomas Edison
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the...”
– George Orwell
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“An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have.”
– Andy Warhol
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“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”
– Francois Truffaut
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“It is useless to go to bed to save the light, if the result is twins.”
– Chinese Proverb
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“Two there are who are never satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of...”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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“All my thoughts are second thoughts.”
– Aldous Huxley
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“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“Truth gains more even by errors of one who, with due study and preparation,...”
– John Stuart Mill
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“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”
– Mark Twain
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“Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction: therefore...”
– Albert Camus
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“I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me...”
– J.D. Salinger
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“Play is the exultation of the possible.”
– Martin Buber
October 2011
27 posts
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“The ultimate effect of shielding men from folly is to fill the world with fools.”
– Herbert Spencer
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“There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the...”
– George Polya
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“To read is to translate, for no two persons’ experiences are the same. A...”
– W.H. Auden
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“The world is but a canvas to our imaginations.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by...”
– Samuel Butler
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“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
– Arthur Miller
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“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest...”
– Richard Feynman
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“We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect,
he becomes an...”
– Alden Nolan
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“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.”
– Mae West
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“Forgiving is giving up the hope that the past could be any different.”
– Anonymous
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“Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
– Khalil Gibran
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“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the...”
– Karl Marx
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“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become...”
– Ansel Adams