Posted by Angela5 on October 29, 2000, at 17:28:57
In reply to Re: Favorite quotations. please add yours!, posted by pullmarine on October 29, 2000, at 15:55:32
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle. -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
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"The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where."- Dorothy Thompson
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That if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
(I don't remember who this is by.)
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Any truth is better than make-believe.
(I don't remember who this is by.)
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"God does not play dice with the universe."
- A. Einstein
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Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor
artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run denied.-Eudora Welty
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Empty your mind of all thoughts.
Let your heart be at peace...
Each separate being in the universe
returns to the common source.
Returning to the source is serenity...
When you realize where you come from,
you naturally become tolerant, disinterested,
amused, kindhearted as a grandmother,
dignified as a king...
you can deal with whatever life brings you,
and when death comes, you are ready.-Lao-tzu, The Book of The Way, 500 B.C., translated by Stephen Mitchell
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner--------------------------------
and a funny one...
Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
- Whoopi Goldberg------------------------
Angela
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