February 2012
6 posts
7 tags
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible;
and...”
– St. Frances of Assisi
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“One cannot plan for the unexpected.”
– Aaron Klug
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“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the...”
– Wilma Rudolph
7 tags
“When you go to take someone’s picture, the first thing they say is, what...”
– Annie Leibovitz
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“Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the...”
– James Hutton
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“A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize...”
– Louise Nevelson
January 2012
12 posts
6 tags
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day,...”
– The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (via lostinthesounds)
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“I’d do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I’d like to...”
– Kristen Bell
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“I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter...”
– William Howard Taft
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“Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“I won’t keep circling the ocean forever, hoping I’ll spot your...”
– Iain Thomas
3 tags
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry...”
– John Keating, Dead Poets Society (via lightmeter)
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“Since I couldn’t actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had...”
– Sidney Poitier
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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness is the key to...”
– John Lennon
10 tags
“‘When we deal with the origins of the universe everyone starts writing...”
– Michael LaBarbera; Professor of Biology at University of Chicago in this article of NYT
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“I’m not happy, I’m cheerful. There’s a difference. A happy...”
– Beverly Sills
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“Life will do everything to destroy your soul, art will remind you that you have...”
– Stella Adler
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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There...”
– Anais Nin
November 2011
2 posts
5 tags
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary...”
– Hans Hoffman
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“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”
– Mark Twain
October 2011
5 posts
6 tags
“Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much...”
– Stephen R. Covey
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“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to...”
– Pearl S. Buck
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“If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem...”
– Michaelangelo Buonarotti
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“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is...”
– John Wooden
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“Don’t aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the...”
– Viktor Frankl
September 2011
2 posts
5 tags
“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head....”
– Tad Williams
4 tags
“An artist has no home in Europe, except for Paris.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
April 2011
13 posts
4 tags
“You have to wonder at times what you’re doing out there. Over the years,...”
– Steve Prefontaine
3 tags
“The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does...”
– Mohandas Gandhi
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“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something...”
– Benjamin Franklin was a man who lived.
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“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with...”
– Will Rogers
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“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you...”
– Raymond Chandler
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“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in...”
– Carl Sagan
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“What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.”
– Emile M. Cioran
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“I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just...”
– Jack Nicholson
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“Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are...”
– Dr. Robert Anthony
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“People think responsibility is hard to bear. It’s not. I think that...”
– Henry Kissinger
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“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because...”
– Martha Graham
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“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you...”
– Lao Tzu
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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
March 2011
34 posts
4 tags
“Americans are broad-minded people. They’ll accept the fact that a person...”
– Art Buchwald
“How Un-American Can You Get?,” Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966
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“By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on...”
– Franz Kafka
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“Evil is whatever distracts.”
– Franz Kafka
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“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it....”
– Franz Kafka
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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the...”
– Andre Gide
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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to...”
– Galileo Galilei
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“If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which...”
– Ruth Benedict
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“A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is...”
– Willard Gaylin
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“There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.”
– Niels Bohr
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“A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from...”
– Hermann von Helmholtz