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What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, though… that’s more the point, wouldn’t you say?
Speaker: Jeanne DuPrauSource: The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrauPosted: 05 Feb 2009 at 12:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy – indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
Speaker: William OslerPosted: 04 Feb 2009 at 8:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
Speaker: Sir Walter ScottPosted: 23 Jan 2009 at 2:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Speaker: Anne Dudley BradstreetPosted: 09 Dec 2008 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you have a question, ask. Better ask a question and reveal your ignorance for a few minutes than not ask and be ignorant for the rest of your life.
Speaker: Czer BergmanSource: http://www.salamon.net/ask.jpgPosted: 08 Dec 2008 at 3:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I know this all sounds weird, but this is the way the world works
Speaker: Robert BoydPosted: 26 Nov 2008 at 4:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The law should conform to ethics, not the other way around
Speaker: Richard StallmanPosted: 18 Nov 2008 at 2:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The ability to change our minds when presented with evidence that disproves our beliefs – even our most entrenched ones – is a hard habit to acquire, but it is extremely valuable. When you start doubting, don’t turn away. Look into the light until your eyes adjust, and see if there is something there.
Speaker: Michael Graham RichardPosted: 18 Nov 2008 at 1:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 17 Nov 2008 at 8:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Speaker: B. F. SkinnerPosted: 14 Nov 2008 at 12:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Remember that people are the least lovable when they are most in need of love.
Speaker: Sharon RandallPosted: 06 Nov 2008 at 12:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
Speaker: Margaret AtwoodPosted: 04 Nov 2008 at 4:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Speaker: Will RogersSource: http://www.answers.com/Posted: 04 Nov 2008 at 4:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
Speaker: Philip K. DickPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 1:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Speaker: English ProverbPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t fall off the floor.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
Speaker: Robert von MusilPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Eggs cannot be unscrambled.
Speaker: American ProverbPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Speaker: Niels BohrPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Speaker: SantayanaPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
