Today Quotes
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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.Bertrand Russell
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.Unknown
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.Ursula K. LeGuin
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"
Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.George Bernard Shaw
Good taste is always an asset.Rudy Bakalov
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.Washington Irving