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.
~quotes on Science by Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point, 1982 They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
~sayings 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.
~quotations 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.
~quotes about being in love 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.
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I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.
~quote about Grandparents by Gene Perret The man who has no imagination has no wings.
~quotes on Attitude by Muhammad Ali To ask timidly is to invite refusal. Ask as though you expected to receive.
~sayings on Personality by A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.
~quotations on Gambling by William Bolitho What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes
~quotes about being in love by Timothy Virkkala The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
~saying about being in by Henry David Thoreau We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
~quote about Attitude 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.
~quotes on Love by W. Somerset Maugham There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.
~sayings on Self by Michel de Montaigne The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is
~quotations on Women's Greetings by Helen Rowland College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
~quotes about being in love 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.
~saying about being in by William James, 11 September 1906 Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.
~quote about Proverbs by Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
~quotes on 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.
~sayings on Happiness by Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
~quotations 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.
~quotes about being in love 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.
~saying about being in by Samuel Johnson Save a tree. Eat a beaver.
~quote about Trees by Author Unknown Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
~quotes on Thinking by Confucius, Analects Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year.
~sayings 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.
~quotations on Education by Richard Yates To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
~quotes about being in love by John Burroughs Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something
~saying about being in by Henry David Thoreau There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.
~quote about Libraries by Tom Masson I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating.
~quotes on Society by D.H. Lawrence People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
~sayings on Quotations by David H. Comins Losing is the great American sin.
~quotations on Sports by Jerome Holtzman The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation
~quotes about being in love by Woodrow Wilson every rose has thorns
~saying about being in by none No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.
~quote about Scrapbooking by Author Unknown, The Scrappers Creed Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
~quotes on Religion by Mark Twain
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