Today Quotes
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Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.Robert A. Heinlein
There are laws for everything except the harm families do.Sue Grafton, "D" is for Deadbeat
Emotion is a rotten base for politics.Dick Francis
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?Dick Francis, Twice Shy
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.Dennis Kucinich
The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.Helen Keller
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.W. B. Yeats
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.Stanislaw J. Lec