Random Quotes
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Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.Jesus Christ
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.Annie Dillard, "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998
Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.Sir Winston Churchill
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.Elbert Hubbard
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.Nelson Mandela
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.Nelson Mandela
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.Thomas Huxley
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.Voltaire
The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005