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Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it’s hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“I caused men no longer to foresee their death.
…I planted firmly in their hearts blind hopefulness.
…And helping humans I found trouble for myself,
Yet I did not expect such punishment as this.” PrometheusSpeaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism’ is the worse. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice – if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice’ – you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness… the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can’t have both. The ordinary bloke suffers every time he chooses between spending a buck on beer or tucking it away for his kids, between getting up to go to work or losing his job. But he always chooses what hurts least or pleasures most. The scoundrel and the saint make the same choices on a larger scale.”
Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 11:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you. And your natural self, which is thus being starved and hampered and worried at every turn, will get angrier and angrier. It is as though Jesus were saying to each of us: 'Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. . . .
Hand over the whole natural self. . . . I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.'Speaker: C. S. LewisSource: Mere Christianity, page 166Posted: 03 Sep 2009 at 2:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
Speaker: Eleanor RooseveltPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Perilous times? Yes. These are perilous times. But the human race has lived imperil from the time before the earth was created. Somehow, through all of the darkness, there has been a faint but beautiful light. And now with added luster it shines upon the world.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I testify that you are among the future leaders of the earth. You are the future leaders of our society and the Church. You need not look like the world. Your personal habits should be different. Your recreation should be different. Your concern for your family will be different. As you establish this distinctiveness firmly in your life’s pattern, the blessings of heaven await to assist you.
Speaker: Robert D. HalesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Speaker: Bernard BaruchPosted: 21 Dec 2007 at 6:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
Speaker: Victoria HoltPosted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.
Speaker: Andrew CarnegiePosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 7:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinSource: http://leftofzen.com/Posted: 26 Nov 2008 at 1:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A course of life that is wrong now cannot and will not be proven right later on.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Speaker: Neils BohrSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.
Speaker: Paul FusselSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t know Apple stuff; I know they make good pies
Speaker: IvanSource: in reference to built in thesaurus app on macPosted: 06 Nov 2012 at 10:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
user from Australia signs up with username “shiftylooks”.
We should totally change her name to DingoBabyFostersKangarooCrocodileDundee so the next time she signs in she’s like WTF!
That would totally make RedditSpeaker: Ivan and JohnSource: when seeing new user sign up via KissmetricsPosted: 07 Nov 2012 at 3:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am convinced that in the long run no one can hurt another without the other’s consent; that is, hurt him in a deeply significant, personal, internal sense. This is because we always have the power to choose a response to what someone else does to us. This may be the reason why failure to forgive someone else is a greater sin than that which he has done to us. That is, it causes more damage to the unforgiving one – a damage in the mind and heart – than that caused by what the other person may do to him externally.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
Speaker: H.L.MenckenSource: Salon.comPosted: 23 Feb 2012 at 4:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Speaker: Willa CatherSource: O Pioneers!Posted: 19 Nov 2009 at 9:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!