Random Quotes
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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.Mark Twain
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.Emo Phillips
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.Arthuer Schopenhauer
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.Socrates
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.William S. Burroughs
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.John Steinbeck
Valour needs first strength, then a weapon.J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.Hazrat Ali Ibn-e- Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermon and sayings compilation)