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" Experience teaches only the teachable. "

Aldous Huxley English critic & novelist (1894 – 1963)

" If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. "

Emile Zola

" Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. "

Jesse Stuart

" Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. "

Anatole France French novelist (1844 – 1924)

" While we are postponing, life speeds by. "

Seneca Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)

" Work is the curse of the drinking class. "

Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. "

Nikita Khrushchev Russian Soviet politician (1894 – 1971)

" So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. "

Haniel Long

" There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities– potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry– that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics. "

Gregory Benford – Timescape

" You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. "

Senator Patrick Leahy, May 1990 US Democratic politician (1940 – )

" Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure. "

Thomas Edison

" It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. "

Norman Maclean

" In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. "

Mignon McLaughlin

" Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it. "

Karol Newlin

" There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. "

Charles Baudelaire, Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXII French poet (1821 – 1867)

" Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. "

Tom Stoppard British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 – )

" As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. "

Dick Cavett US comedian & television host (1936 – )

" If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts. "

Author Unknown

" The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual — when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions — it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978 US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 – 1991)

" A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. "

Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

" If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. "

Charles Gordon

" Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. "

Leo Tolstoy Russian mystic & novelist (1828 – 1910)

" Reason is immortal, all else mortal. "

Pythagoras, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Greek mathematician, philosopher, & scientist (582 BC – 507 BC)

" Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. "

Rainer Maria Rilke German lyric poet (1875 – 1926)

" Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there. "

Anonymous

" To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. "

Francis Crawford

" We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend. "

Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish author (1850 – 1894)

" Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before. "

Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003

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