Today Quotes
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Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.Johann Georg von Zimmermann
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.Pierre Corneille, Le Cid (1637)
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.Emily Dickinson
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.Helen Keller
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item"
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.Carl Sagan
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?Carl Sagan
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.Carl Sagan
Lost time is never found again.Benjamin Franklin