Random Quotes
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.Edgard Varese
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)
Literature is news that stays news.Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.Bertrand Russell
The least of learning is done in the classrooms.Thomas Merton
No wise man ever wished to be younger.Jonathan Swift
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.Lee Iacocca
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.William Hazlitt
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.Sidney J. Harris
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.Rita Mae Brown