Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.
Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
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Zeno Of Citium
The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has something to offer that the other lacks. We may weave them together into a new whole that is stronger than the sum of its parts.
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Frans De Waal
Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in...
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Ford Madox Ford
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been badly manhandled, but that it has moved forward.
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Victor Hugo
Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside, ” is a safe rule for those who would always retain the good opinion of that all-powerful, but somewhat unintelligent, incubus, “the average person, ” but...
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Jerome K. Jerome
More Quotes By James Thurber
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
You are all a lost generation, " Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.
You have made the moon, " The Jester said. "That is the moon.
Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.
