Today Quotes
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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?George Carlin
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.Albert Einstein
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.Richard Feynman
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
To love another person is to see the face of God.Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.Leonardo da Vinci
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value.Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis"