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Please read, even though it is rather long (and comment)

Jan 25, 2006 22:32

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light , not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
-Marianne Williamson

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
- Groucho Marx

We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
-Benjamin Franklin

Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third.
-Lou Costello

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-Mark Twain

They came for the Communists, and I didn't object For I wasn't a Communist; They came for the Socialists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Socialist; They came for the labor leaders, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a labor leader; They came for the Jews, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Jew; Then they came for me - And there was no one left to object.
-Martin Neimoller

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortune.
-Andre Gide

To be great is to be misunderstood.
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend and I'm not thine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.
-Andre Maurios

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
May the rain fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again,...
-Irish Blessing

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
-Edith Sitwell

When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest.
-Bullwinkle Moose

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody is listening.
-Nick Diamos

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
-Louis Brandies

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
-Thomas Fuller

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
-Paula Poundstone

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
-W. C. Fields

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
-Thomas Stearns Eliot

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
-Helen Keller

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
-Gerald Brenan

A witty saying proves nothing.
-Voltalre

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