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Quotes relating to exploration, inspiration, humor and new beginnings.

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1001 Arabian Nights
Nur in der Fremde, nicht zu Hause sammelt man Ruhm und Erfahrung.
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Douglas Adams
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
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Alfred Adler
Die größte Gefahr im Leben ist, dass man zu vorsichtig wird.
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Akhenaton
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
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Herm Albright
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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Noelie Alito
The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.
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Fred Allen
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
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Woody Allen
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
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Maya Angelou
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, and if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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Anonymous (Anonym)
Woher komme ich? Wohin gehe ich? Und vor allem: Was ziehe ich dazu an?
Man muss aus den Fußstapfen der Vorgänger heraustreten um eigene Spuren zu hinterlassen.
Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.
There may be nothing sadder than people who spend their lives talking about what might have been.
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows.
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.
God gave us 2 ends with a common link; with one you sit, with one you think; success depends on which we use; heads we win, tails we lose!
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you a car.
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were.
If Barbie's so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
If your friend won't lend you $50, he's probably a close friend.
Only two major products have come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. This is probably not a coincidence.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
It is easy to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song
But the man worthwhile
Is the one who will smile
When everything goes wrong.
The test of the heart is trouble
And it always comes with years
But the man who is worth
All the praises of Earth
Is the one who smiles through tears.
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness makes you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you may get kicked in the teetch. Give the world your best anyway.
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Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Wit is educated insolence.
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Ellie Arroway
For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for some reason why we're here -- what are we doing here, who are we? If this is a chance to find out even just a little part of that answer, I think it's worth a human life, don't you?
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Mary Kay Ash
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
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Isaac Asimov
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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W. H. Auden
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
A man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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St. Augustine (Augustinus Aurelius)
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Die Welt ist ein Buch. Wer nie reist, sieht nur eine Seite davon.
Menschen reisen um die Höhe der Berge zu bestaunen, die riesigen Wellen des Meeres, die Länge der Flussläufe, die ungeheure Ausdehnung des Ozeans, die Umlaufbahnen der Sterne -- und sie gehen an sich selbst vorüber, ohne zu staunen.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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Sir Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Das sind schlechte Entdecker, die glauben, es gäbe kein Land, wenn sie nur Wasser sehen können.
In jüngeren Jahren ist Reisen Teil der Erziehung, in späteren Jahren Teil der Erfahrung.
Wenn ein Reisender heimkehrt, soll er die Länder, die er besucht hat, nicht ganz hinter sich lassen.
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Russell Baker
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
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James Baldwin
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.
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Lucille Ball
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
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Honore de Balzac
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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Miriam Beard
Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
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Warren Beatty
You've achieved success in your field when you dont know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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Kent Beck
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treament.
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Robert Benchley
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
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Ingrid Bergman
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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Milton Berle
Laughter is an instant vacation.
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Yogi Berra
Half this game is ninety percent mental.
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
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Ambrose Bierce
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
(The Devil's Dictionary)
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
(Devil's Dictionary)
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Josh Billings
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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Lawana Blackwell
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
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William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
What is now proved, was once only imagined.
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Niels Bohr
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
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Erma Bombeck
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight seeing'.
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Elayne Boosler
When women are depressed the either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
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Nathaniel Borenstein
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
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Jakob Bosshart
Leute mit leichtem Gepäck kommen am besten durchs Leben.
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J. G. C. Brainard
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
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Phillip Brooks
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
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John Brown
You may dispose of me very easily. I am nearly disposed of now. But this question is still to be settled -- this Negro question, I mean; the end of that is not yet.
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William Jennings Bryan
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Art Buchwald
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
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Buddha
The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings....
As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become.
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Edmund Burke
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Carl Burns
A child on a farm sees a plane fly by overhead and dreams of a faraway place.
A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.
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Sir Richard Burton
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.
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Wilhelm Busch
Eins, zwei, drei, im Sauseschritt
läuft die Zeit, wir laufen mit,
schaffen, schuften, werden älter,
träger, müder und auch kälter,
bis auf einmal man erkennt,
dass das Leben geht zu End.

Viel zu spät begreifen viele
die versäumten Lebensziele,
Freunde, Schönheit der Natur,
Gesundheit, Reisen und Kultur.
Darum, Mensch, sei zeitig weise!
Höchste Zeit ist's! Reise, reise!
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James F. Byrnes
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
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Albert Camus
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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Eddie Cantor
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
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Al Capone
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with a kind word alone.
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Thomas Carlyle
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Margaret Carty
Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.
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Carlos Castaneda
Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.
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Cato the Elder
After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Charlie Chaplin
In the end, everything is a gag.
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Emile Charter
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
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G. K. Chesterton
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
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Chinese Proverb
To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.
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Sir Winston Churchill
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Any man who is under 30, and is not liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
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Cicero
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
No Sane man will dance.
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Tom Clancy
When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result his crew was well motivated.
(Hunt For Red October)
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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Frank A. Clark
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
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Glenn Clark
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke's Second Law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
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Samuel Clemmens (Mark Twain)
The Gentle Reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the Gentle Reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Wer alle Sorgen dieser Welt vergessen will, braucht nur Schuhe zu tragen, die eine Nummer zu klein sind.
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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Bill Clinton
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.
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Peter Coffee
If there's one thing that computers do well, it's to make the same mistake uncountable times at inhuman speed.
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Caleb Colton
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds.
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Confucius
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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Rich Cook
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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Charles Horton Cooley
The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
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Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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Bill Cosby
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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Robert Cringely
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
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e e cummings
the most wasted of all days is one without laughter
im living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart
"the greedy the people"

the greedy the people
(as if as can yes)
they sell and they buy
and they die for because
though the bell in the steeple
says Why

they chary the wary
(as all as can each)
they don’t and they do
and they turn to a which
though the moon in her glory
says Who

the busy the millions
(as you’re as can i’m)
they flock and they flee
through a thunder of seem
through the stars in their silence
say Be

the cunning the craven
(as think as can feel)
they when and they how
and they live for until
though the sun in his heaven
says Now

the timid the tender
(as doubt as can trust)
they work and they pray
and they bow to a must
though the earth in her splendor
says May
"if everything happens that can't be done"

if everything happens that can't be done
(and anything’s righter
than books
could plan)
the stupidest teacher will almost guess
(with a run
skip
around we go yes)
there’s nothing as something as one

one hasn’t a why or because or although
(and buds know better
than books
don’t grow)
one’s anything old being everything new
(with a what
which
around we come who)
one’s everyanything so

so world is a leaf so tree is a bough
(and birds sing sweeter
than books
tell how)
so here is away and so your is a my
(with a down
up
around again fly)
forever was never till now

now i love you and you love me
(and books are shutter
than books
can be)
and deep in the high that does nothing but fall
(with a shout
each
around we go all)
there’s somebody calling who’s we

we’re anything brighter than even the sun
(we’re everything greater
than books
might mean)
we’re everyanything more than believe
(with a spin
leap
alive we’re alive)
we’re wonderful one times one
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Marie Curie
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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Guy Davenport
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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William Henry Davies
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
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Bette Davis
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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Vine Deloria, Jr.
The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.
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Rene Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Bernadette Devlin
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
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Charles Dickens
He would make a lovely corpse.
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Paul Dirac
In science one tries to tell people, in such as way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But, in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.
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Walt Disney
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Reisen lehrt Tolerieren.
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B. Dodge
No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
How often have I said to you, that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
(Sherlock Holmes)
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W. E. B. Du Bois
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk, but only remember that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner ... and simply remember the things we regard as credible and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect ment and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.
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Charles H. Duell
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
(1899)
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Dutch Proverb
He who is outside the door has already got a good part of his journey behind him.
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Abba Eban
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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Thomas Edison
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like works.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Paul Ehrlich
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
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Albert Einstein
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Do not worry about your difficulty in mathematics. I assure you, mine are still greater.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Not everything that can be counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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Lore Eiseley
The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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T. S. Eliot
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive at where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Thomas Stearns Elliott
Wir werden nicht aufhören zu forschen, und das Ende unserer Erkundungen wird sein, dass wir dort ankommen, wo wir unsere Reise begonnen haben, und den Ausgangspunkt zum ersten Mal erkennen.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not ... The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
Wir mögen die Welt durchreisen um das Schöne zu finden, aber wir müssen es in uns tragen, sonst finden wir es nicht.
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Susan Ertz
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Euripides
Experience, travel -- these are education in themselves.
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Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
It is never too late to be who you might have been.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
Wear a smile and have friends;
Wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our hurts will be made much of--to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more. (Adam Bede)
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people--amongst whom your life is passed--that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-- for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience. (Adam Bede)
Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings--much harder than to say something fine about them which is NOT the exact truth. (Adam Bede)
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty--it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. (Adam Bede)
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Antoine de Sainte Exupery
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Clifton Fadiman
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
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Marc Ferro
There is no other country in the world where there is such a large gap between the sophisticated understanding of some professional historians and the basic education given by teachers.
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
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Theodor Fontane
Was wir in Welt und Menschen lesen, ist nur der eigne Widerschein.
Man kann alle Reisenden in zwei Charakterklassen teilen, in freundliche Sanguiniker, die überall sehen und auch sehen wollen, wodurch sie die Fremde vorteilhaft von ihrer Heimat unterscheidet, und in leberkranke Nörgler, die sich zu Hause eine Vortrefflichkeitsschablone zurechtgemacht haben und über alles verstimmt sind, was davon abweicht.
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Dame Margot Fonteyn
... wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.
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Henry Ford
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Always take a job that is too big for you.
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Vincent T. Foss
One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
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Anne Frank
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
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Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Well done is better than well said.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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John Hope Franklin
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
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Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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Thomas Fuller
The fool wanders, the wise man travels.
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Buckminster Fuller
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I am finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Paul Fussell
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.
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Galileo Galilei
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
An eye for an eye makes the world blind.
I think it would be a good idea. [when asked what he thought of Western civilization]
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Indira Gandhi
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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Bill Gates
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more user-friendly. Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, "user-friendly" on the cover.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
(1981)
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Charles de Gaulle
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
What do you take me for, an idiot? [when a journalist asked him if he was happy]
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German Proverb (Deutsches Sprichwort)
Abroad to see wonders the traveler goes,
And neglects to find things which lie under his nose.
Wanderst du, brauche nicht nur deine Füße, sondern auch Augen, Kopf und Herz.
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Karl Gerstner
What is thinking? I should have thought I would have known.
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Darcy E. Gibbons
Success is just a matter of attitude.
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Andrew Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bleibe nicht am Boden heften,
frisch gewagt und frisch hinaus!
Kopf und Arm mit heitern Kräften,
überall sind sie zu Haus;
wo wir uns der Sonne freuen,
sind wir jede Sorge los;
dass wir uns in ihr zerstreuen,
darum ist die Welt so groß.
Das ist das Angenehme auf Reisen, dass auch das Gewöhnliche durch Neuheit und Überraschung das Ansehen eines Abenteuers gewinnt.
Du kannst dich also nach Belieben in der Welt umsehen: denn die beste Bildung findet ein gescheiter Mensch auf Reisen.
Wir lernen die Menschen nicht kennen, wenn sie zu uns kommen; wir müssen zu ihnen gehen um zu erfahren, wie es mit ihnen steht.
Man reist nicht nur um anzukommen, sondern vor allem um unterwegs zu sein.
Alles, was uns begegnet, lässt Spuren zurück. Alles trägt unmerklich zu unserer Bildung bei.
Lose this day loitering, 'Twill be the same story Tomorrow -- and the next more dilatory. Then indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting overdays! Are you ernest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or dream you can - begin it! Courage has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage, and the mind grows heated. Begin it, and the work will be completed.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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Carlo Goldoni
Die Welt ist ein wunderschönes Buch, doch von geringem Nutzen für den, der nicht lesen kann.
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Alice Graybill
Create the highest,grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe.
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Graham Greene
The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.
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Graham Greene
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Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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Sacha Guitry
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
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Emil Gött
Die Heimat des Abenteurers ist die Fremde.
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Barbara Hall
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
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Brutus Hamilton
It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life [that] those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest people.
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Katharine Butler Hathaway
A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
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Friedrich Hebbel
Eine Reise ist ein Trunk aus der Quelle des Lebens.
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Ernest Hemingway
Never mistake motion for action.
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Katharine Hepburn
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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Frank Herbert
Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.
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Herman Hesse
Reiselied

Sonne leuchte mir ins Herz hinein,
Wind verweh mir Sorgen und Beschwerden!
Tiefere Wonne weiß ich nicht auf Erden,
als im Weiten unterwegs zu sein.

Nach der Ebne nehm ich meinen Lauf,
Sonne soll mich sengen, Meer mich kühlen;
unsrer Erde Leben mitzufühlen
tu ich alle Sinne festlich auf.

Und so soll mir jeder neue Tag
neue Freunde, neue Brüder weisen,
bis ich leidlos alle Kräfte preisen,
aller Sterne Gast und Freund sein mag.
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Paul Heyse
Durchschweife frei das Weltgebiet,
willst du die Heimat recht verstehn.
Wer niemals außer sich geriet,
wird niemals gründlich in sich gehn.
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Edmund Hillary
Warum wir auf die Berge steigen?
Weil sie da sind.
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Babs Hoffman
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.
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Douglas Hofstadter
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end, about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind over-taxed.
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Alas for those who never sing, but die within all their music still in them.
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John Andrew Holmes
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
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Paxton Hood
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
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Horace
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it's lovely to be silly at the right moment.
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Jim Horning
Nothing is a simple as we hope it will be.
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A. E. Housman
Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's a ware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey's over
There'll be time enough to sleep.
(A Shropshire Lad)
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Richard Hovey
I am fevered with the sunset,
I am fretful with the bay,
For the wander-thirst is on me
And my soul is in Cathay.
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Elbert Hubbardd
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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Victor Hugo
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow.
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Leigh Hunt
Es gibt zwei Welten: die Welt, die wir mit dem Lineal messen können, und die Welt, die wir mit unserem Herzen und unserer Fantasie empfinden.
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Bill Hurst
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewrites bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
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Aldous Huxley
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
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Henry James
It occurred to me that it would be a kindness to take her about and introduce her to the world.
She thinks she knows a great deal of it -- like most American girls; but like most American girls she's ridiculously mistaken.
(Portrait of a Lady)
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Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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John Jensen
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
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Samuel Johnson
Alles Reisen hat seine Vorteile. Wenn der Reisende bessere Länder besucht, lernt er daraus vielleicht sein eigenes zu verbessern, wenn das Schicksal ihn in ein schlechteres verschlägt, lernt er vielleicht sein eigenes zu schätzen.
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Thomas Jones
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
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Carl Gustav Jung
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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Sam Keen
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.
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Garrison Keillor
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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Helen Keller
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Worse than being blind, is to see and have no vision.
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Stan Kelly-Bootle
Computer Science: 1. A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter. 2. The boring art of coping with a large number of trivialities.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. [definition of happiness]
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Brian W. Kernighan
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
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Charles F. Kettering
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
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Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
What is really important in education is ... that the mind is matured, that energy is aroused.
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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Rudyard Kipling
"If"

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
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Henry Kissinger
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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Adolph von Knigge
Zum Reisen gehört Geduld, Mut, Humor, Vergessen aller häuslichen Sorgen und dass man sich durch kleine widrige Zufälle, Schwierigkeiten, böses Wetter, schlechte Kost und dergleichen nicht entmutigen lasse.
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Will Kommen
If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel.
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Korean Proverb
A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out.
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Irving Kristol
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Erhart Kästner
Warum reist man eigentlich? Man reist um die Welt bewohnbar zu finden ... Man sucht das Verlorene, irgendwo muss es doch sein.
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Pierre Laplace
Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. [to Napoleon, when asked why works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God]
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Doug Larson
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
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Paul Leary
That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything and they don't drink all your beer.
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Ursula K. LeGuin
It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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Robert Leighton
The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.
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Gloria Leonard
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
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H. T. Leslie
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Der Blick des Forschers fand nicht selten mehr, als er zu finden hoffte.
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Bob Lewis
Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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G. C. Lichtenberg
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
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Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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Vince Lombardi
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
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Sophia Loren
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Larry Lorenzoni
The average person thinks he isn't.
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Louis L'Amour
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
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Douglas MacArthur
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
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Ferdinand Magellan
The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore ... unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible ... it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors ... to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.
Wer an der Küste bleibt, kann keine neuen Ozeane entdecken.
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Horace Mann
We want principles, not only developed -- the work of the closet -- but applied, which is the work of life.
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Katherine Mansfield
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
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Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
* * * * * * * * * *
Abraham Maslow
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
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Peter Matthiesen
Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?
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William Somerset Maugham
Nur wenige sind sich bewusst, dass sie nicht nur reisen um fremde Länder kennen zu lernen, sondern auch um fremden Ländern die Kenntnis des eigenen zu vermitteln.
* * * * * * * * * *
William McNeill
Law of the Conservation of Catastrophe: The solutions to one crisis pave the way for some equal or greater future disaster.
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Larry McVoy
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different.
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Margaret Mead
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own.
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Golda Meir
Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.
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Henry Louis Mencken
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
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Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary
wanderlust: a strong longing for or impulse toward wandering. (German, from wandern to wander + Lust desire, pleasure)
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James Michener
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
* * * * * * * * * *
Henry Miller
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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Charles Mingus
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
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Wilson Mizner
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
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Mohammed
Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.
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Michel de Montaigne
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Bücher sind der beste Vorrat, den ich auf unserer Lebensreise zu finden weiß.
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Charles de Montesquieu
Es sind immer die Abenteurer, die große Dinge vollbringen.
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Bram Moolenaar
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
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George Moore
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
* * * * * * * * * *
Moorish Proverb
He who does not travel does not know the value of men.
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Christian Morganstern
Oh Ferne, du meine Heimat.
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Walter Mossberg
Just remember: you're not a "dummy," no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who, though technically expert, couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended on it.
* * * * * * * * * *
John Muir
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures -- maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always.
We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.
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Prentice Mulford
Personen, die viel auf Reisen sind und immer neue Orte und Menschen sehen, zeichnen sich durch eine gewisse Lebensfrische aus, an der es denn mangelt, die jahrein, jahraus am selben Platz leben.
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Lewis Mumford
The machine itself makes no demands and holds out no promises: it is the human spirit that makes demands and keeps promises. In order to reconquer the machine and subdue it to human purposes, one must first understand it and assimilate it. So far we have embraced the machine without fully understanding it.
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Edward A. Murphy
Murphy's Law: If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
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Regina Nadelson
Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.
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Burt Nanus
Vision is where tomorrow begins, for it expresses what you and others who share the vision will be working hard to create. Since most people don't take the time to think systematically about the future, those who do, and who base their strategies and actions on their visions, have inordinate power to shape the future.
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Patricia Neal
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Unsere Erlebnisse sind viel mehr das, was wir hineinlegen, als das, was darin liegt.
The doer alone learneth.
Memory says, "I did that." Pride replies, "I could not have done that." Eventually, memory yields.
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Anias Nin
We see things not as they are, but as we are.
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Larry Niven
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
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Kwame Nkrumah
The history of a nation, unfortunately, too easily written as the history of its dominant class.
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Isamu Noguchi
We are a landscape of all we have seen.
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David Ogilvy
I once used the word obsolete in a headline, only to discover that 43 percent of housewives had no idea what it meant.
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Felix Okoye
I would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.
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Ken Olson (President, Chair, Founder of DEC)
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
(1977)
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Aristotle Onassis
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
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Robert J. Oppenheimer
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
[after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion]
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Robert Orben
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
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George Orwell
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
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Georgia O'Keefe
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
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Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
"Ode"

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world forever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world’s great cities.
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire’s glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown:
And three with a new son’s measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o’erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world’s worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
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Blaise Pascal
Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
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George S. Patton
If a man does his best, what else is there?
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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Jean Paul
Nur Reisen ist Leben, wie umgekehrt das Leben Reisen ist.
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Cesare Pavese
Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
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Maryon Pearson
Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
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William Penn
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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Jeff Pesis
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
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Austin Phelps
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
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Sylvia Plath
Immer krieg ich Heimweh, bevor ich irgendwohin reise.
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Plato
Of the portents recorded in ancient tales many did happen and will happen again.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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George Polya
Geometry is the art of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.
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Neil Postman
Once you have learned how to ask questions -- relevant and appropriate and substantial questions -- you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning what you want or need to know.
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Colin Powell
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.
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Mitch Radcliffe
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
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Simon Raven
Da das Leben kurz und die Welt groß ist -- je eher du auf Entdeckungsreise gehst, umso besser.
... life is short and the world is wide.
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Sam Rayburn
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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Jules Renard
Die Heimat, das bedeutet: von Zeit zu Zeit eine Minute der Rührung, aber doch nicht dauernd.
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Report to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, 1486
So many centuries after the Creation, it is unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value.
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Richard Rhodes
I find I learn more by observing than by judging.
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Francois-Auguste Rodin
I choose a block a marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
[when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues]
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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Jean Rostand
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
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John-Jacques Rousseau
Um sich zu unterrichten, genügt es nicht, dass man nur Länder durcheilt; man muss zu reisen wissen. Um zu beobachten, muss man Augen haben und sie auf den Gegenstand richten, den man kennen lernen will.
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Bertrand Russell
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
All geometric reasoning is in the last result, circular.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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George Santayana
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Hell is other people.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Albert Schweitzer
You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Ich bin nicht für nur einen Ort geboren; die ganze Welt ist mein Heimatland.
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George Bernard Shaw
Halte dich sauber und hell: Du bist das Fenster, durch das du die Welt sehen musst.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
You see things, and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and I say, "Why not?"
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Diodorus Siculus
As a general thing we find that the ancient myths do not give us a simple and consistent story; consequently it should occasion no surprise if we find, when we put the ancient accounts together, that in some details they are not in agreement with those given by every poet and historian.
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Shel Silverstein
Draw a crazy picture
Write a nutty poem
Sing a mumble-gumble song
Whistle through your comb
Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.
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B. F. Skinner
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Lillian Smith
I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.
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Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Ralph W. Sockman
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Susan Sontag
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
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Spanish Proverb
Three helping one another will do as much as six working singly.
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Heinrich Spoerl
Jede Reise hat zwei Höhepunkte: den einen, wenn man lebenshungrig und voller Erwartung hinausfährt, den anderen, wenn man heimkehrt und sich freut auf daheim.
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John Steinbeck
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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Gloria Steinem
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine a marriage and a career.
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
Die Welt ist mit so vielen Dingen gefüllt, dass wir alle glücklich wie Könige sein sollten.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
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Adlai Stevenson
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
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Igor Stravinsky
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Anna Louise Strong
I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
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Charles William Stubbs
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
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Anne-Sophie Swetchine
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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Thomas Szasz
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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James Taylor
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I am a part of all that I have seen.
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Mother Teresa
Das wichtigste Reisegepäck ist ein fröhliches Herz!
If you can't feed 100 people, then feed just 1.
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Virgil Thomson
Musicians ... own music because music owns them.
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Henry David Thoreau
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
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Henry Tillman
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.
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Brian Tracy
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
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Chogyan Trungpa
Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate -- look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look -- look further.
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Kurt Tucholsky
Trudele durch die Welt. Sie ist so schön; gib dich ihr hin, sie wird sich dir geben.
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Edward Tufte
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users.
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Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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Frank Tyger
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
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Sun Tzu
Opportunities multiple as they are seized.
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Unknown
The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor.
The meek will inherit the Earth ... The rest of us will go to the stars.
Don't think you're on the right road just because it's a well-beaten path.
I didn't ask for it to be over, but then again, I never asked for it to begin. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunsets.
We can never turn back the pages of time, though we may wish to relive a happy moment, or say good-bye just one last time, we never can, because the sands of time continue to fall, and we can't turn the hourglass over.
I've learned that: goodbyes will always hurt, pictures can never replace being there, memories forget the hard times, words can never replace feelings, and heros often go unsung.
I cannot say good-bye to those whom I have grown to love, for the memories we have made will last a lifetime and never know a good-bye.
The world needs more men who do not have a price at which they can be bought; who do not borrow from integrity to pay for expediency; whose handshake is an ironclad contract; who are not afraid of risk; who have opinions instead of prejudices; who are as honest in small matters as they are in large ones; whose ambitions are big enough to include others; who know how to win with grace and lose with dignity; who do not believe that shrewdness and cunning and ruthlessness are the three keys to success; who still have friends they made twenty years ago; who are not afraid to go against the grain of popular opinion and do not believe in 'consensus'; who are occasionally wrong and always willing to admit it. In short, the world needs leaders.
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
There are no shortcuts in life unless you right-click.
Some people see a closed door, and turn away.
Others see a closed door, try the knob,
and if it doesn’t open, they turn away.
Still others see a closed door, try the knob,
and if it doesn’t open, they find a key,
and if it doesn’t fit, they turn away.
A rare few see a closed door, try the knob,
and if it doesn’t open, they find a key,
and if it doesn’t fit,
They make one.
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Paul Valery
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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Henry Van Dyke
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
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Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
So viel ist sicher: Reisen tut immer gut.
Jeden Tag lernen wir Dinge, von denen wir keine Ahnung hatten. Reisen bilden wirklich sehr.
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. [on deathbed, in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan]
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Wernher Von Braun
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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John Von Neumann
Anyone who considers the arithmetical methods of producing random digit is, of course, in a state of sin.
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John Walker
There is a difference between eating a varied diet and chowing down on a cup of lard and sugar once a day. Programmers know this instinctively: they balance their daily menu among the four major food groups: caffeine, sugar, grease, and salt.
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Larry Wall
The three chief virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
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William Arthur Ward
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
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H. M. Warner
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
[founder of Warner Bros., in 1927]
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George Washington
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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Thomas Watson (Chairman of IBM)
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
(1943)
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Simone Weil
The test of what is real is that it is hard and rough ... What is pleasant belongs in dreams.
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H. G. Wells
Moral indignity is jealousy with a halo.
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Eudora Welty
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
All serious daring starts from within.
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Mae West
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
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Ruth Westheimer
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.
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Charlotte Whitton
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
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Elie Wiesel
Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back.There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
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Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Eine Weltkarte, die das Land Utopia nicht enthielte, verdiente diesen Namen nicht, denn ihr fehlte das einzige Land, in dem die Menschheit immer landet.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
I am not young enough to know everything.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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Robin Williams
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
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Charles V. Willie
By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves ... We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise.
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Walter Winchell
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
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Darryl Worley
I love this crazy, tragic
Sometimes almost magic
Awful, beautiful life
(Awful, Beautiful Life)
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Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Steven Wright
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
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Bill Wulf
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
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Malcolm X
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, not matter who does it or says it.
As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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Robert Yates
It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.
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William Butler Yeats
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Lin Yutang
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
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Warren Zevon
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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Emile Zola
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work.
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