Random Quotes
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A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.Emily Dickinson, No. 1333
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999
There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires ( early book)
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.Helen Keller
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.Helen Keller
If a nation is ruled by two kings, both the kings and their subjects will perish.Yeghishe
Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me.Epictetus
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations