A Flood of Words...

Nov 05, 2006 00:28


When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
-- Albert Einstein

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
-- Galileo Galilei

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
-- Bertrand Russell

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
-- Thomas Merton

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
-- Robertson Davies

There are more fools in the world than there are people.
-- Heinrich Heine

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
-- Chuck Reid

As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
-- H. Rider Haggard

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
-- Quentin Crisp

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
-- Rudyard Kipling

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
-- Michael McClary

All phone calls are obscene.
-- Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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