Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday. Great short quote and quotation by: Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown) , Quotations by unknown authors
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John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981
We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive. Great short quote and quotation by: John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981 ,
We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good […]
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We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when […]
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Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"
We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, […]
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We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Great short quote and quotation by: Werner Heisenberg ,
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Jimmy Carter, in his farewell address
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. […]
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Marie Curie, Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, […]
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We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. Great short quote and quotation by: Susan Taylor ,
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. Great short quote and quotation by: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2 , German philosopher […]
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What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Great short quote and quotation by: Crowfoot ,
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