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Saint Teresa Of Avila

To reach something good it is very …

13 Oct , 2011  

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Great short quote and quotation by: Saint Teresa Of Avila , Spanish ascetic, nun, & saint (1515 – 1582)

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Aleister Crowley

To read a newspaper is to refrain f…

13 Oct , 2011  

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Great short quote and quotation by: Aleister Crowley , English occultist (1875 – 1947)

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To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means s…

13 Oct , 2011  

To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something – something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance – did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time. Great short quote […]

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Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)

Tomorrow is the most important thin…

13 Oct , 2011  

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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Thomas H. Huxley

Try to learn something about everyt…

5 Aug , 2011  

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas H. Huxley , English biologist (1825 – 1895)

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Lord Kelvin

Until you can measure something and…

24 Mar , 2011  

Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the begining of understanding. Great short quote and quotation by: Lord Kelvin ,

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We act as though comfort and luxury…

15 Feb , 2011  

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Kingsley , English Anglican clergyman & novelist (1819 – 1875)

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Charles Kingsley

We act as though comfort and luxury…

15 Feb , 2011  

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Kingsley , English Anglican clergyman & novelist (1819 – 1875)

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Stephen Hawking

We are just an advanced breed of mo…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Great short quote and quotation by: Stephen Hawking , English cosmologist and physicist (1942 – )

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Stephen Hawking, Der Spiegel, 1989

We are just an advanced breed of mo…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Great short quote and quotation by: Stephen Hawking, Der Spiegel, 1989 , English cosmologist and physicist (1942 – )

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Anne Wilson Schaef

We begin to see that the completion…

15 Feb , 2011  

We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it. Great short quote and quotation by: Anne Wilson Schaef ,

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We cannot be sure that we have some…

15 Feb , 2011  

We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it. Great short quote and quotation by: Eric Hoffer , (1902 – 1983)

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