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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), 'Jugurthine War,' 41 B.C.
- What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
- Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989
- What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
- You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
- Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
- University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- Cocooned inside our private dramas we often don’t realize life is rolling by us like it should.
- Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 08-29-06
- Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
- Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
- You never can see into someone else's marriage.
- Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
- Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
- Anthony Starr
- You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
- Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
- There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
- Emile Chartier
- When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
- Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
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