- A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. --Bertrand Russell
- Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. --Oscar Wilde
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. --Oscar Wilde
- So we just went to lunch, and I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater because I am alive. --Chuck Klosterman
- Each morning when I awake, I experience a supreme pleasure-that of being Salvador Dali.
- From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind. --Ayn Rand
- The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. --Rene Magritte
- The highest measure of intelligence is the capacity for kindness and compassion. How can we call something "intelligent" if, for the sake of our own singular, supposed benefit, it causes harm to someone else? Where's the utility of cognition then? --?????
- We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware, beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one. --Kent Nerburn
dec 9 2008 ∞
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