Today Quotes
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We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.Thomas Huxley
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.Voltaire
The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005
Almost anything you do is insignificant, But it is very important that you do it.Mahathma Gandhi
When kings the sword of justice first lay down;
They art no kings, though they posess the crown;
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.Daniel Defoe
Its never too late to have a happy childhood.Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?Abraham Lincoln
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.George Orwell