Random Quotes
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.John Erskine
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.Carl Jung
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.Thomas Jefferson
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.Aldous Huxley
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.Blaise Pascal
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.Sir William Osler
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.Sidney J. Harris
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.Samuel Butler