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There is no such thing as “fun for …

3 Jul , 2015  

There is no such thing as “fun for the whole family.” Great short quote and quotation by: Jerry Seinfeld , US comedian & television actor (1954 – )

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Jerry Seinfeld

There is no such thing as fun for t…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. Great short quote and quotation by: Jerry Seinfeld , US comedian & television actor (1954 – )

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Miyamoto Musashi

There is timing in the whole life o…

17 Nov , 2014  

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. Great short quote and […]

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Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi

To be silent the whole day long, se…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi , US […]

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Bourke Cockran

Underlying the whole scheme of civi…

4 Aug , 2011  

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future. Great short quote and quotation by: Bourke Cockran ,

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We can allow satellites, planets, s…

15 Feb , 2011  

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Darwin , English biologist (1809 – 1882)

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We can spend our whole lives undera…

15 Feb , 2011  

We can spend our whole lives underachieving. Great short quote and quotation by: Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality ,

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We have staked the whole future of …

15 Feb , 2011  

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according […]

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James Madison, (attributed)

We have staked the whole future of …

15 Feb , 2011  

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according […]

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Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

We must never allow the future to b…

15 Feb , 2011  

We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles. Great short quote and quotation by: Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting , Czechoslovakian novelist (1929 – )

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James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002

We spend most of our time and energ…

15 Feb , 2011  

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things?[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. Great short […]

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Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:26

What does it profit a man if he gai…

15 Feb , 2011  

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul? Great short quote and quotation by: Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:26 ,

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