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Monday, April 22, 2013


Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others
- Oscar Wilde 



"Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
- Goethe




Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek
- Tom Robbins


"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time,and always start with the person nearest you."
- Mother Teresa


 

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
- Walt Whitman




Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.
- Meryl Streep, Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010


It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing. 
- George Washington, First president of US (1732 - 1799)


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