Today Quotes
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.Samuel Butler, In Festing Jones, Samuel Butler : A Memoir
As soon as there is life there is danger.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.Johann Georg von Zimmermann
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.Pierre Corneille, Le Cid (1637)
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.Emily Dickinson
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.Helen Keller
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item"
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.Carl Sagan
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?Carl Sagan