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I Can Quotes (page 481)

Daisaku Ikeda quote: "It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others...."
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections. Daisaku Ikeda
Peter Cook quote: "I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat..."
I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly Peter Cook
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us? Tennessee Williams
Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don't need God or miracles or the flight of the bumble bee. But it is also crouched and undecidable. It can go either way. Don DeLillo
Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe. Bill Bryson
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized...."
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. Chuck Palahniuk
We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas. Milton Friedman
Mignon McLaughlin quote: "A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one..."
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. Mignon McLaughlin
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse. Charles Dickens
Anne Frank quote: "But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or..."
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. Anne Frank
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness. Albert Camus
Anthony Burgess quote: "To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the..."
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. Anthony Burgess
Men are not generally sufficiently aware of the distinction between the law of God and his purpose; they are apt to suppose, that as the temper of the sinner is contrary to the one, so the outrages of the sinner are able to defeat the other; than which nothing can be more false. John Witherspoon
You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown. Henry James
Samuel Johnson quote: "There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of..."
There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve. Samuel Johnson

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