Today Quotes
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And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.Voltaire
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX
Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.Dwight D. Eisenhower
A word to the wise is infuriating.Hunter S. Thompson
Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.Kofi Annan, In his "In Larger Freedom" report to the United Nations General Assembly
If you do something only for money, you will never succeed at it.Don Hall, (Hallmark CEO)