Random Quotes
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.Alfred North Whitehead
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.Bertrand Russell
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.Samuel Johnson, (attributed)
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.Tom Stoppard
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.Tom Stoppard
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.George Bernard Shaw
All that counts in life is intention.Andrea Bocelli, in TV Guide
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.Paul Theroux, in The Washington Post