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Quotes
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
Edward Abbey (1927-1989) US author
"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear
discussion."
Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton -Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 1895-1902
"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
Abigail Adams (1744-1818) US first lady, Letter to John Adams, 1774
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make good use of it! - letter to Abigail Adams, April 26, 1777
John Adams (1735-1826) Second U.S. President
"Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much, the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason."
Douglas Adams
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
Douglas Noel Adams, British author, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air."
John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA
"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams The Dilbert Principle
"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!"
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) US novelist
"Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it."
Louisa May Alcott
"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won."
Muhammad Ali.
"Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."
Fred Allen
"When I was born, I was so surprised, I couldn't talk for a year and a half!" ...
Gracie Allen
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
Woody Allen, US screenwriter, actor, director
"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers."
Woody Allen
"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."
Julie Andrews, British actress
"To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles."
Anon.
"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."
Antisthenes, Greek philosopher
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
Minna Antrim, American writer (1856-1950)
"In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."
Aristotle (384BC-322BC) Greek writer, philosopher "Nicomachen Ethics"
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
Aristotle, (384BC-322BC) Greek writer, philosopher and scientist
"Wit is educated insolence."
Aristotle, (384BC-322BC) Greek writer, philosopher and scientist
"All men by nature desire to know."
Aristotle, (384BC-322BC) Greek writer, philosopher and scientist
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle, (384BC-322BC) Greek writer, philosopher and scientist
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
Aristotle, (384BC-322BC) Greek writer, philosopher and scientist
"Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war..."
Aristophanes, Greek dramatist
"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong (1901-1971), U.S. jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer
Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English poet
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
Arthur Ashe, American tennis champion
"The young specialist in English Lit... lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong.
...My answer to him was, ...when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."
Isaac Asimov, The Relativity of Wrong
"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) US science writer, science-fiction writer
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