Random Quotes
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In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.T. S. Eliot
Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?Groucho Marx
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.George Orwell
Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.Orson Scott Card, Treasure Box
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the saneJoe Orton, What the Butler Saw, Act II
I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.D. H. Lawrence
Human beings cannot stand too much reality.Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me.Friedrich Nietzsce, Beyond Good and Evil
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.Voltaire, Zadig