Today Quotes
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.Bertrand Russell
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.e. e. cummings
...[I] put out my hand, and touched the face of God.John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight
The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.John Philpot Curran, in a speech July 10, 1790
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.Unknown
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.Margaret Lee Runbeck
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.Dorothy Nevill
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.Willa Cather