If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
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When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.
~quotes on Advice by Charles Varlet de La Grange, Pensées, 1872 The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake!
~sayings on Medical by Martin H. Fischer Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
~quotations on Attitude by Alphonse Karr I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
~inspirational words of wisdom by Voltaire Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.
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Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.
~quote about Science by Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point, 1982 They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
~quotes on Media Journalism by James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982 The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
~sayings on Age by H.L. Mencken As the gardener prunes the tree to draw the sap into one or two branches, so must we concentrate on one or two to avoid scattering our talents.
~quotations on Self Improvement by I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
~inspirational words of wisdom by Frank Sinatra I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.
~saying about words of wisdom by Gene Perret The man who has no imagination has no wings.
~quote about Attitude by Muhammad Ali To ask timidly is to invite refusal. Ask as though you expected to receive.
~quotes on Personality by A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.
~sayings on Gambling by William Bolitho What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes
~quotations on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Timothy Virkkala The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
~inspirational words of wisdom by Henry David Thoreau We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
~saying about words of wisdom by Author Unknown We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
~quote about Love by W. Somerset Maugham There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
~quotes on Self by Michel de Montaigne The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is
~sayings on Women's Greetings by Helen Rowland College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
~quotations on College by George Gobel The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.
~inspirational words of wisdom by William James, 11 September 1906 Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.
~saying about words of wisdom by Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
~quote about Nature by Michel de Montaigne Since our happiness depends on the character of our thoughts, away forever with all negatives. It requires effort to keep positive, but anything that doesn’t take effort isn’t worth having.
~quotes on Happiness by Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
~sayings on Happiness by Johnny Carson I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese.
~quotations on Vegetarianism by Author Unknown (Thank you, Eric.) Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
~inspirational words of wisdom by Samuel Johnson Save a tree. Eat a beaver.
~saying about words of wisdom by Author Unknown Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
~quote about Thinking by Confucius, Analects Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year.
~quotes on Guests by Victor Borge They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.
~sayings on Education by Richard Yates To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
~quotations on Philosophical by John Burroughs Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something
~inspirational words of wisdom by Henry David Thoreau There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.
~saying about words of wisdom by Tom Masson I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating.
~quote about Society by D.H. Lawrence People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
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