What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that […]
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What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. Great short quote and quotation by: Epictetus, Discourses , Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD – 135 AD)
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What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. Great short quote and quotation by: Norbert Wiener ,
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What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Great short quote and quotation by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Great short quote and quotation by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. Great short quote and quotation by: Peter De Vries ,
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir Winston Churchill , British politician (1874 – 1965)
When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder. Great short quote and quotation by: David Brower ,
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home?so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where […]
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