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General| Return to Index | | Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
| | Adela Florence Nicolson,
1865-1904, English,
Poet |
| Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
| | Agatha Christie,
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| Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
| | Agatha Christie,
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| It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
| | Albert Einstein,
1879-1955, German American,
Physicist |
| Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
| | Albert Einstein,
1879-1955, German American,
Physicist |
| There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
| | Albert Schweitzer,
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| Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
| | Albert Schweitzer,
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| Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.
| | Aldo Leopold,
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| Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
| | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
1918-, Russian,
Author |
| Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
| | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
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| Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
| | Alfred A. Montapert,
, American,
Author |
| Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small - To think that many another lad - Has had no luck at all.
| | Alfred Edward Housman,
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| Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
| | Alice Duer Miller,
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| Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
| | Alice Meynell,
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| I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.
| | Ambrose Bierce,
1842-1914, American,
Author |
| Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
| | Anaxagoras,
, Greek,
Philosopher |
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