Random Quotes
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The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.Albert Einstein
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.Richard Feynman
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
To love another person is to see the face of God.Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.Leonardo da Vinci
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value.Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis"
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.Henry David Thoreau, Walden