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Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate quotations.
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Henry Louis Mencken
For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
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Gregory Benford - Timescape
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.
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Orison Swett Marden
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.
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James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Albert Einstein
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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Fidel Castro, Playboy Interview - January 1967
I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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Bertolt Brecht
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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William James
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155
Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever.
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