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Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want. - Eliot Ness
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
― Alyson Noel
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. - Friedrich Nietzsche
"It's not the size of your fangs, it's how you bite." - Anonymous
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. -Edward R. Murrow
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. - Werner Heisenberg
“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. - Frederick Douglass
“We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.”
― Marilyn Monroe
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. - Iris Murdoch
“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
History is all explained by geography. -Robert Penn Warren
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright
“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”
― Plotinus
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. - Lao Tzu
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. -Immanuel Kant
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Pink Floyd
It is not possible to go forward while looking back. - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure. - Jonathan Kozol
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf