An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
~quotes on Environment by Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
~sayings on Learning by Hemingway, advice to Stanley Karnow, as quoted in Friendly Advice compiled and edited by Jon Winokur We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
~quotations on Civilization by Richard P. Feynman When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.
~funny math quotes by Clifton Fadiman For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence.
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
~quote about Stress by Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
~quotes on Age by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
~sayings on Teachers by Mark Van Doren Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.
~quotations on Humankind by Hungarian Proverb Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
~funny math quotes by Martin Luther King Jr. One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best
~saying about math by Alan Shearer The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
~quote about Kindness by John E. Southard Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
~quotes on Grandparents by Lewis Mumford Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
~sayings on Hypocrisy by Abraham Lincoln The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
~quotations on War by John F. Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~funny math quotes by Rose F. Kennedy A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
~saying about math by Irish Proverb Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around.
~quote about Life by David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down, 1965 If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide
~quotes on Election Day by Meg Greenfield There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
~sayings on Solitude by Colette If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
~quotations on Brevity by Dennis Roth If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first.
~funny math quotes by Arthur Weigall The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality
~saying about math by Martin Luther King Jr. It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?
~quote about Self by Richard Bach Marriage changes passion - suddenly you're in bed with a relative.
~quotes on Marriage by Author Unknown God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
~sayings on Religion by Imamu Amiri Baraka There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written.
~quotations on Books Reading by Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
~funny math quotes by Henri Cartier Bresson We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse.
~saying about math by Author Unknown You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
~quote about Carpe Diem by Joan Baez I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
~quotes on Genius by John F. Kennedy, in an address to Nobel Prize winners Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
~sayings on Marriage by George Jessel Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
~quotations on Marriage by Zsa Zsa Gabor You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.
~funny math quotes by Rose Maccaulay For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators.
~saying about math by Logan Pearsall Smith The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything
~quote about Birth by Oscar Wilde The days a man spends fishing or spends hunting should not be deducted from the time that he's on earth. In other words, if I fish today, that should be added to the amount of time I get to live. That's the way I look at recreation. That's why I'll be a big conservation, environmental President, because I plan to fish and hunt as much as I possibly can.
~quotes on Environment by George Bush, quoted in Los Angeles Times, 30 December 1988
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