Tag: aphorisms
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March 28, 2007 06:51 PM EDT --
Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had . . .
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April 07, 2007 03:33 PM EDT --
You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.
Wallace Arnold
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The
man who walks alone is likely to find himself . . .
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September 26, 2007 09:53 AM EDT --
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
Doug Larson
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
The . . .
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November 28, 2009 03:27 AM EST --
~ Sa'adi of Shiraz (1184 - 1283/1291?) ~
"Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, is as one who plows but does not sow." ~ Sa'adi of Shiraz (Iran) . . .
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March 28, 2007 01:05 AM EDT --
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly . . .
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June 25, 2007 06:23 PM EDT --
"When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don’t deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I know I’m innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, . . .
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July 27, 2007 04:27 PM EDT --
"May you live in interresting times!"
-----Ancient Chinese curse
Does the hand life's dealt you hold . . .
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May 14, 2007 10:04 PM EDT --
Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not recieve. When you meet Beauty, you feel that hands deep within your inner self are stretched forth to bring her into . . .
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June 25, 2007 05:20 PM EDT --
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate (Plurality should not be assumed without necessity) In other words, "Keep it simple".
Brother William of Ockham
[Occam's Razor:] Entities must . . .
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September 21, 2007 11:57 PM EDT --
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. . . .
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May 18, 2007 01:10 PM EDT --
The tears you shed are purer than the laughter of him that seeks to forget and sweeter than the mockery of the scoffer. These tears cleanse the heart of the blight of hatred, and teach man to share . . .
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August 15, 2007 01:58 PM EDT --
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
Paramahansa Yogananda
There are always two . . .
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September 14, 2009 07:49 PM EDT --
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. ~ Proverbs 29:18 (King James Version) . . .
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March 15, 2009 01:35 AM EDT --
Never persuade yourself that you possess wisdom in
virtue of mere memory or mere mental culture. Wisdom
is like a mother's love, which makes itself felt only after
the labours and pains of childbirth. . . .
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May 07, 2009 04:16 PM EDT --
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950)
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A life spent . . .
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