“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”
~Mark Twain~
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“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.” – Charles Dickens
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”And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
- Walt Whitman
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”The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” – Albert Einstein
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”Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein
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”The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
- Albert Einstein
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”A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.” – Albert Einstein
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”I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.”
- Albert Einstein
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”God is subtle but he is not malicious.” – Albert Einstein
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”Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” – Albert Einstein
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”I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein
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”The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.” – Albert Einstein
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”Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.” – Albert Einstein
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Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” – Albert Einstein
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”Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
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”Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
-Albert Einstein
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”Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
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”I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.” – Albert Einstein
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”Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.” – Albert Einstein
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”Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein
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”Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” – Albert Einstein
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”The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” – Albert Einstein
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”The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” – Albert Einstein
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”God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.” -Albert Einstein
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”The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.” – Albert Einstein
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”Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” – Albert Einstein
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”Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein
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”The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” – Albert Einstein
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”We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein
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”Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” – Albert Einstein
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”A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.” – Charles Dickens
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”Be curious, not judgmental.” – Walt Whitman
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”An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.” – Charles Dickens
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”Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
- Walt Whitman
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”Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein
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”Freedom – to walk free and own no superior.”
- Walt Whitman
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. – Edgar Allan Poe
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”A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” – Walt Whitman
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”After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.”
- Walt Whitman
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. – Edgar Allan Poe
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”All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.” – Walt Whitman
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”And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” – Walt Whitman
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”And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. “
- Walt Whitman
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. – Walt Whitman
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
-Walt Whitman
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. – Edgar Allan Poe
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
- Walt Whitman
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”The universe,” he observed, “makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.” – Charles Dickens
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”I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” – Edgar Allan Poe
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”A word in earnest is as good as a speech.” – Charles Dickens
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”Jesus Christ on a crutch.” – My mother … –
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”You feel me”? — Unknown
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”The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.” – Buddha
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”In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely felt, as injustice.” – Charles Dickens
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”Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.” – Charles Dickens
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”My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.” – Rosa Parks
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”The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.” – James A. Baldwin
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“It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn’t feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.” – Rosa Parks
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”No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” – Buddha
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”I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks
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Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.” – Rosa Parks
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”Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” – Buddha
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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.” – Edgar Allan Poe
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”That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.” – Charles Dickens
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”That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.” – Edgar Allan Poe
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”They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” – Edgar Allan Poe
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”He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.” – Herodotus
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”I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.” – Herodotus
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”As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.” – Herodotus
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”I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else’s. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there’s no truth.” – Flannery O’Connor
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”It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. ” – Flannery O’Connor
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”I don’t deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. ” – Flannery O’Connor
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”Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.” – Flannery O’Connor
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”A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ” – Mark Twain
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”A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.” – Mark Twain
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”Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.” – Mark Twain
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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” – Richard Feynman
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“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Dr. Samuel Johnson
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.” – Sir Francis Bacon
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“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.” – W. Somerset Maugham
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“We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.” – Abigail Adams
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“…Indeed it is so, for if there is agreement on one point in history, be sure there’s interest there to have it so and that’s not truth.” – William Carlos Williams
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“But history follows governments and never men. It portrays us in generic patterns, like effigies or the carvings on sarcophagi, which say nothing save, of such and such a man, that he is dead. That’s history. It is concerned only with the one thing: to say everything is dead. Then it fixes up the effigy: there that’s fnished. Not at all. History must stay open, it is all humanity… But how small is the sum of good writing against the mass of poisonous stuff that finds its way into the history books; for the dead can be stifled like the living….” – William Carlos Williams
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“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” – George Bernard Shaw
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“Go to heaven and make a U-turn” – My brother
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“Slow down, you’re getting me fershimmelled” – My mother
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“If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.” – George Bernard Shaw
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“Sara Mandrake must have taken it.” – My mother
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“It’s just a job, Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand, I beat people up.” – Muhammad Ali
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“One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. Everyone is equal and we must treat each other well.” –
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.” – Robert M. Hutchins.
-beeha
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