Today Quotes
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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.Edgar Watson Howe
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.Archimedes, 300 B.C.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.Leo Rosten
I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.John Milton, Paradise Lost
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Eleanor Rosevelt
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.Henry Miller