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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. - Abraham Lincoln
“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
― George Carlin
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
― Anais Nin
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it. - Ivan Turgenev
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. - Paul Valery
"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
Jimmy Carter
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
Anne Bradstreet
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. - Ivan Turgenev
The red fluid of life is flowing right along my arms, I feel the sweet blade diving deep inside, This moment I've been waiting for so long a time, when I know the last cut will be for my life. - lyrics from "The Last One For Life" by: Eternal Tears Of Sorrow
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. - Oscar Wilde
“May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back.” —Irish blessing
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. - Oscar Wilde
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. - Aesop
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. - William Blake
“The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter!” — Jen Selinsky
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin
"Once you choose Hope, anything's possible" Christopher Reeves
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. - Voltaire
“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. - Pope John Paul II
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook