" America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art. "

Robin Tyler

" Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. "

Niels Bohr Danish physicist (1885 – 1962)

" Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. "

Thomas Paine, Common Sense US patriot & political philosopher (1737 – 1809)

" Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason. "

Francois De La Rochefoucauld French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)

" Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn

" The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain. "

David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory

" Our character…is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. "

George Santayana, “The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis” US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

" God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. "

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes US cartoonist (1958 – )

" The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors. "

Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775 US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 – 1804)

" The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. "

General George Patton

" If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. "

Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978

" Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended. "

Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)

" A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. "

Eleanor Hamilton

" It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. "

Arnold Toynbee English historian & historical philosopher (1889 – 1975)

" The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. "

G. K. Chesterton English author & mystery novelist (1874 – 1936)

" Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. "

Michael Korda

" And thou shalt smite thine enemy even unto the wall, gnashing thy teeth, and he shall grow small in thy mirrors. "

Jeff Zurschmeide

" I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son-in-law suffer in her dreams. "

Ernest Coquelin

" The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. "

Bertrand Russell British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

" How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak? "

Jay Leno US comedian & television host (1950 – )

" The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. "

Fred Allen US radio comedian (1894 – 1956)

" It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul. "

William Ernest Henley, From the poem “Invictus”

" And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. "

Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

" My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing. "

Emo Phillips US comedian

" One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau. "

Josephine Preston Peabody

" It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. "

M. Grundler

" Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances. "

Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D., Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self

" It is the mind that makes the man. "

Ovid Roman poet (43 BC – 17 AD)

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