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Francis Bacon quote: "A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have..."
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. Francis Bacon
What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are set that matters. Words are his sails. The way they are set turns them into concepts. Walter Benjamin
When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very tough, sheer agony. In that kind of harrowing situation, I always go away and cut myself off from the world. Also, I sober up immediately when there is genuine bad news in my life; I never face it with alcohol in my brain. I just rented a house in Palm Springs and sat there and just suffered for a couple of weeks. I suffered there until I was strong enough to face it. Ava Gardner
Edward Abbey quote: "All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature..."
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires. Edward Abbey
Michael Jordan quote: "I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success."
I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success. Michael Jordan
O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all! Richard Baxter
Suzanne Collins quote: "because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties..."
because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be. Suzanne Collins
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. Abraham Lincoln
I got a number of very thoughtful responses to the email I sent out last night, most of which I don’t have time to respond to right now. Thanks everyone for the encouragement, questions, criticism. Daniel’s response was particularly inspiring to me and deserves to be shared. The resistance of Israeli Jewish people to the occupation and the enormous risk taken by those refusing to serve in the Israeli military offers an example, especially for those of us living in the United States, of how to... Rachel Corrie
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and..."
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. H. Rider Haggard
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. Kurt Vonnegut
Dan Brown quote: "Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand."
Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand. Dan Brown
Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning? Helene Cixous
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fanciesthat have moulded them Jawaharlal Nehru

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