We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. Great short quote and […]
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet (1803 […]
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We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet […]
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John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
We find that after years of struggle we do not take a journey, but rather a journey takes us. Great short quote and quotation by: John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley , US novelist (1902 – 1968)
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence…on pain of liquidation. Great short quote and quotation by: George Bernard Shaw , Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)
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We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Great short quote and quotation by: Emily Dickinson , US poet (1830 – 1886)
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. Great short quote and quotation by: Nick Faldo ,
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. Great short quote and quotation by: Swedish proverb ,
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts […]
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E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… or any sort worth speaking about. I have […]
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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Twain , US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)
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