QUOTES

July 2nd, 2007




The quotes that I did not, for some reason or another, share with you last term.

My sincerest apologies.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian

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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. James Thurber

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I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie:

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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Robert Byrne

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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Vaclav Havel

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

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Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark Twain

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Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein

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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

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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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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451, 1953

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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
Joseph Conrad

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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin

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All things are difficult before they are easy.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Blaise Pascal

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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
Buckminister Fuller

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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus

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Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.
(adapted)
Bertrand Russell

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My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would give you the ability to see yourself as others see you… then you would realize what a truly special person you are.
Barbara A. Billings

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

~ Albert Einstein

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce

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One who has health has hope, and one who has hope has everything.

~ Arabic proverb

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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
- Vernon Law

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
Lynn Hall,

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein

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I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

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  1.   Kenneth says:

    were we ACTUALLY supposed to say the quote by Bertrand Russell? its so long! and i like the second last quote by albert. never knew he had a sorta sense of humour…

  2.   Isaac says:

    That is a very long code, that’s why he posted it on the blog

  3.   jekkee says:

    Is success in life really the sum of work, play and mouths kept shut? I think he meant work, play and listening, because listen cannot happen without silence. Work, play and listen, what is success in life anyway?

  4.   jekkee says:

    And who is Bertrand Russell?

    Isacc, it is not a very long code actually, because it is a quote, not a code!

  5.   Isaac says:

    ok, and my name is’nt Isacc, it’s Isaac

  6.   jekkee says:

    Oh, sorry.

  7.   Alex says:

    i like dis quote “We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.”
    Blaise Pascal.
    and “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
    Henry David Thoreau
    very meaningful.
    got another quote i found “Winners never quit, Quitters never win.”
    Anonymous

  8.   Tang Zi Wei says:

    … … The 2nd last quote sounds like a chinese one. I seemed to have heard of it before during tution. I guess its just a translation. Winners never cheat, cheaters never win.
    Omi (jkjk)

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