Random Quotes
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.Thomas Carlyle
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.Hadewijch of Antwerp
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.Soren Kierkegaard
When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?Nicolas Martin
The headline reads, "Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics." This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, "Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, "Stop me before I prescribe again."Nicolas Martin, www.iatrogenic.org
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.Nicolas Martin, Article c. 1995
Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour.Sir Ernest Shackleton
Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), The Self-Tormentor (Heautontimoroumenos)