Today Quotes
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She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Ninth, Chapter 2
At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.Friedrich Nietzsche
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted ChildrenLewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.George Christoph Lichtenberg
Conformity is the ruin of the mind.Jesse Shelley
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.Dorothy Sayers
Gold for friends,
Lead for foes.Anastasio Somoza Garc
One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.Sigmond Freud