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Quote of the WeekWhat it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do ~ Aristotle7:48 AM - 7/17/2009 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekThe price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knoweldge of its ugly side ~ Jame Baldwin
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Man exploits man. Under communisim, it's just the opposite ~ Russian Proverb
Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy ~ John Wilmot
If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father ~ Jean de La Bruyere
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest ~ William Hazlitt
Genius...means little more than the faculty of preciving in an unhabitual way ~ William James
8:42 AM - 7/4/2009 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekOne of my favorite Gandhi quotes becasue it sums up what I always say and what I beleive
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christinas are so unlike your Christ ~ Gandhi 8:04 AM - 6/26/2009 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekWhat I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
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All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how well you preform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thnkns it's lousy ~ Laurence Olivier 7:41 AM - 6/19/2009 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekNothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won ~ Arthur Wellseley, Duke of Wellington
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
And this one was just funny:
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober ~ William Butler Yeats 7:57 AM - 5/2/2009 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the weekYou are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil unitl you have crossed the bridge ~ Bulgarian Proverb12:04 PM - 3/20/2009 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekMost people have seen worst things in pritave than they pretend to be shcokled at in public~ Edgar Watson Howe8:42 AM - 3/14/2009 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekI just thought this one was funny, and yet so true
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing ~ Ambrose Bierce
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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him ~ Voltaire 9:19 AM - 3/6/2009 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekSometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way ~ Red O'Donnell
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Death is a distant rumur to the young ~ Andrew A. Rooney
It is better tyo waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all ~ George Courteline
Self-love, my liedge, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting ~ Shakespeare
Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says; "I am coming" ~ Virgil 9:01 AM - 2/13/2009 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekThere is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way ~ Christopher Morley11:18 AM - 1/30/2009 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekYou got to love the great Bard, this one gave me a laugh
When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools ~ Shakespeare 11:35 AM - 1/23/2009 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekHappiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind ~ Marcel Proust
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There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession ~ Daniel Webster
This was just funny:
A short saying oft contains much wisdom ~ Sophocles
9:16 AM - 1/16/2009 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death ~ Leonardo da Vinci11:30 AM - 1/2/2009 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekPower corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many ~ Eric Hoffer11:55 AM - 12/26/2008 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekI thought this one was wonderfully poetic.
One short sleep past, we weak etnerally, and death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die ~ John Donne
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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself ~ Publilus Syrus
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail ~ Luciano Pavarottie 8:40 AM - 12/12/2008 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekDeath is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not ~ Epicurus9:37 AM - 12/6/2008 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekExperience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted ~ Italian Proverb8:46 AM - 11/14/2008 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekI loved this, and think it does speak of a lot of truth
The cheif mourner does not always attend the funeral--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Never mistake knowlege for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make life ~ Sandra Carey
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation ~ Charlotte Bronte
8:40 AM - 11/7/2008 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekWe are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language ~ Joyce Carol Oates11:52 AM - 10/31/2008 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekWe are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language ~ Joyce Carol Oates7:46 AM - 10/17/2008 - comments {0} - post comment
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