Random Quotes
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This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.Oswald Spengler
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.Sir Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.Sir Francis Bacon
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.Horace Mann
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.Mark Twain
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.Dr. Karl Menninger
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.Dan Rather
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.Jonathan Swift