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I mean only that in our Times, 'tis not a rare Dispute," Maskelyne assures him. "Reason, or any Vocation to it,-- the Pursuit of the Sciences,-- these are the hope of the Young, the new Music their Families cannot follow, occasionally not even listen to. Thomas Pynchon
What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.[His famous summary on his 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'.] Ludwig Wittgenstein
Well, what we know. Is not what they tell us. We're not ignorant, I mean it, And they just cannot touch us. Through the powers of the Most-High We keep on surfacin'Thru the powers of the Most-High We keep on survivin'. Bob Marley
When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence Enrico Fermi
Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a continuous critical exasperation, would use the word of him without stopping to think. They feel that Dickens is a great writer even if he is not a good writer. Gilbert K. Chesterton
One cannot, without reflection, make some into bearers of goodness and others into miscreants, judging them by relative positive or negative criteria. These, like everything else, change according to historical circumstances, the character of a society, the time and subjective points of view. Daisaku Ikeda
To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape. Alan Watts
The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do; and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay for living a thousand lives. Jacob Bronowski
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus. John Steinbeck
And indeed, it cannot be denied that the most successful practitioners of life, often unknown people by the way, somehow contrive to synchronize the sixty or seventy different times which beat simultaneously in every normal human system, so that when eleven strikes, all the rest chime in unison, and the present is neither a violent disruption nor completely forgotten in the past. Virginia Woolf
William Shakespeare quote: "It is not nor it cannot come to good."
It is not nor it cannot come to good. William Shakespeare
Charles M. Schulz quote: "Dearest darling, how I love you. Words cannot tell how much I..."
Dearest darling, how I love you. Words cannot tell how much I love you. So forget it. Charles M. Schulz
We all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we’re mortal, we know it’s going to end; you cannot prepare yourself for it. J. K. Rowling
What would the new teacher, representing France, teach us? Railroading? No. France knows nothing valuable about railroading. Steamshipping? No. France has no superiorities over us in that matter. Steamboating? No. French steamboating is still of Fulton's date--1809. Postal service? No. France is a back number there. Telegraphy? No, we taught her that ourselves. Journalism? No. Magazining? No, that is our own specialty. Government? No; Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Nobility, Democracy,... Mark Twain
Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain on earth, even if he was surrounded by bread. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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