Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

[ Elbert Hubbard ]



We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

[ Kurt Vonnegut ]



Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

[ Henry James ]



Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

[ Zhuang Zi ]



Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

[ C.S. Lewis ]



Where there is great love there are always miracles.

[ Willa Cather ]



Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been. ~

[ William Hazlitt ]



Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

[ Peter Ustinov ]



The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

[ Albert Einstein ]



I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'

[ Winston Churchill ]



One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called a tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse.

[ Victor Hugo ]



To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[ William Shakespeare ]



All animals are equal— but some animals are more equal than others.

[ George Orwell ]



Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ~

[ Oscar Wilde ]



Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

[ Bertrand Russell ]



If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

[ Albert Einstein ]



It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

[ Harry S. Truman ]



I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

[ Martin Luther King ]



I remain faithful to my beliefs and remain inflexibly anti-colonialist.

[ Aimé Césaire ]



Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

[ Les Brown ]



Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

[ Ralph Gerard ]



Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

[ Albert Einstein ]



Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

[ Mark Twain ]



Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

[ George Bernard Shaw ]



Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

[ Erich Fromm ]



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