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Out of the shadow of this evil should emerge lasting good. [ Tony Blair (Labor Party Conference, Oct.2nd, 2001, in reference to the tragic September, the 11th.) ]
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who
must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. [ Herbert Clark Hoover ]
The mere absence of war is not peace. [ John F. Kennedy ]
God, grant me the Serenity to accept
the things which I cannot change,
the Courage to change those I can,
and the Wisdom to know the difference. [ Serenity Prayer ]
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
Together we are strong [ anonymous ? ]
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People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future. [ Anonymous ? ]
Don't find fault, find solutions. Anyone knows how to complain. [ Henry Ford ]
Don't curse darkness; light a candle. [ Chinese proverb ]
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change;
the realist adjusts the sails. [ William Arthur Ward ]
Through our scientific genius, we have made this world a neighborhood;
now through our moral and spiritual development, we must make of it a brotherhood. [ Martin Luther King Jr. ]
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. [ Helen Keller ]
Unless life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile. [ Mother Teresa ]
Do not confuse the pleasure of pleasing with the happiness of loving. [ Coco Chanel ]
Happiness is caring and liking one another. [ anonymous ? ]
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Each Internaut's voice is powerful and must be used
for the Good of the entire Planet.
[ Silvia Schmidt *Humancat* ]
LanGServices translation from the Brazilian Portuguese language original, below. Full LanGServices' translation available here for download, in a small text file.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. [ Heraclitus ]
The man who has no imagination has no wings. [ Muhammed Ali ]
Imagination is more important than knowledge. [ Albert Einstein ]
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. [ William Plomer ]
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. [ Albert Einstein ]
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? [ Albert Einstein ]
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. [ Albert Einstein ]
God does not play dice. [ Albert Einstein ]
Nor is it our business to prescribe to God how He should run the world. [ Niels Bohr, in response to Einstein, above.]
God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. [ Stephen Hawking , in reference to the above controversy. ]
God may be subtle. But He is not malicious. [ Albert Einstein ]
You are not thinking. You are merely being logical. [ Niels Bohr to Albert Einstein]
Logicians have but ill defined
As rational the human kind
Logic, they say, belongs to man,
But let them prove it if they can. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]
After a time, you may find that having a thing is not so pleasurable as
wanting it. It is not logical, but it is often true. [ Mr. Spock, Startrek ]
Analysis kills spontaneity. [ Henri-Frederic Amiel ]
Absence of proof does not mean presence of disproof. [ anonymous ]
Every new idea is a joke, until someone comes and puts it into practice. [ Robert Goddard, the father of space travel, professor at Clark University, Mass., USA ]
When it is wrong today, we call them crazy; when it is right tomorrow, we call them a genius. [ in: Facets of Geniality, National Geographic TV station ]
A man with a new idea is a crank, until the idea succeeds. [ Mark Twain ]
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. [ Francis Bacon, Of Innovations ]
We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. [ Mao Tse-Tung ]
The laws of our universe don't change, but the way we understand them and translate them into human accessible coding. [ TCM ]
The history of scientific development, itself, is living evidence of the fact that what has once been viewed or accepted as dogma, remains so only until science moves a step forward and is able to assimilate it and integrate it within the scope of current scientific data, usually providing a fresh framework.
[ TCM ]
LanGServices translation to Brazilian Portuguese, below:
A história do desenvolvimento científico constitui, por si própria, evidência viva de que aquilo que já foi tido ou acolhido como dogma, permanece em tais condições tão somente até que a ciência dê um passo à frente e se encontre apta a assimilar e integrar este novo avanço em meio ao conjunto dos conceitos científicos vigentes, o que via de regra permite o emergir de um paradigma inédito.
[ TCM ]
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. [ St. Augustine ]
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. [ Marcel Proust ]
The map is not the territory. [ A.Korzybski ]
I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title. [ Anwar Sadat ]
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are
moving. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Upon those who step into the same rivers,
different and again different waters flow. [ Heraclitus ]
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute--and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. [ Albert Einstein ]
Love is space and time made directly perceptible to the heart. [ Marcel Proust ]
If one life shines, the life next to it will catch the light. [ anonymous ]
Monkey, look at your tale! [ Brazilian popular saying ]
(Referring to a glass of water) I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody! [ Steven Wright ]
I was crying because I had no shoes, when I met a man who had no feet. [ anonymous ]
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence [ This one is rather international; it is found in many languages ]
The neighbor's chicken is always fatter. [ Brazilian version of the above saying ]
Scars are medals on the chest of heroes;
heroes are those who wear these medals without showing them off. [ Paulo Renato Rodrigues ]
LanGServices translation from the Brazilian Portuguese language original:
Cicatrizes são medalhas no peito dos heróis.
Heróis são os que as carregam sem ostentar. [ Paulo Renato Rodrigues ]
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. [ Elbert Hubbard ]
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight--it's the size of the fight in the dog. [ Dwight D. Eisenhower ]
A bad compromise is better than a good battle. [ Russian Proverb ]
He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor. [ Hindi proverb ]
If I could put it into words I wouldn't have danced it. [ Isadora Duncan , upon being questioned "What were you trying to tell us in that dance?"]
At another time, she [Helen Keller] asked, What is a soul? No one knows, I replied; but we know it is not the body, and it is that part of us which thinks and loves and hopes [. . . and] is invisible. But if I write what my soul thinks, she said, then it will be visible, and the words will be its body. [ Annie Sullivan, 1891 ]
What makes life meaningful, I believe, is an ability to see pattern and significance in forms and events around us. Often this requires finding an appropriate focal length or contextual frame for viewing "this which is around us". [ Mary Lynn Richardson ]
Life must be lived forwards, but it can only be understood backwards. [ Søren Kierkegaard ]
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. [ Søren Kierkegaard ]
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. [ Kathleen Norris ]
The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through the automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable. [ U.S. Privacy Protection Study Commission, 1977 ]
All bad precedents begin with justifiable measures. [ Julius Caesar ]
A precedent embalms a principle. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Wit
The salt with which the American Humorist spoils his cookery
... by leaving it out. [ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary ]
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. [ Eric Hoffer ]
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or
creed. [ Bertrand Russell ]
To realize true happiness, erase the barriers between who you
are and what you do. [ Paul Keene ]
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. [ anonymous ]
If you love something,
Set it free,
If it comes back it is yours,
If it doesn't, it never was... [ author? ]
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation. [ Rainer Maria Rilke ]
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. [ Henri-Frederic Amiel ]
The milk of human kindness never curdles [ anonymous ? ]
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Gratitude:
one of the most beautiful forms of Love;
never demanding, entirely giving. [ MieNet ]
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. [ Abigail Van Buren ]
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. [ Herman Melville ]
Take, for instance, a twig and a pillar, or the ugly person and the great beauty, and all the strange and monstrous transformations. These are all leveled together by Tao. Division is the same as creation; creation is the same as destruction. [ Chuang-tzu , 369-286 BC]
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. [ Pablo Picasso ]
The first measure of a free society is not that its government performs the will of the majority. We had that in 1930s Germany and in the South until the '60s. The first measure of a free society is that its government protects the just freedoms of its minorities. The majority is quite capable of protecting itself. [ Jim Warren, GovAccess, 1995 ]
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. [ Bertrand Russell ]
People are divided into two groups--the righteous and the unrighteous--and the righteous do the dividing.
[ Lord Cohen ]
The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors. [ Henry Begue ]
Half of the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm
But the harm does not interest them. [ T.S. Eliot ]
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. [ Albert Einstein ]
If only the bad chaps knew how ideal it is
the good one feels as one does good,
there would be no one left in the world
who albeit being bad would manage to do harm.
[ Múcio Teixeira ]
LanGServices translation from the Brazilian Portuguese language original:
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Soubessem os maus que é ideal
o bem que se sente ao fazer o bem,
não haveria no mundo mais ninguém
que mesmo sendo mau fizesse o mal.
[ Múcio Teixeira ]
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We need to open our hearts in a deep and compassionate way. We need to learn to look at others not with the feeling of "what can I get?" but "what can I learn? what can I understand?" instead. [ Sharon Stone ]
Kindness may evoke, in return...
self-gratifying joy,
from good we feel compassionately
moved to offer;
deep long lasting joy,
from unconditional good
we are thoughtfully ready to provide. [ MieNet ]
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. [ George Santayana ]
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. [ Henry Adams ]
The quality of your life is in direct proportion with the amount of uncertainty that you can live with. [ Anthony Robbins, on CNN, January 2000. ]
Security begins as a state of mind. [ NSA Employee Manual, leaked to the public via the Internet. ]
Fidelity: a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. [ anonymous ]
Mr. Play-it-safe died of old age. [ Brazilian popular saying ]
Our laws and institutions must go hand in hand with progress of the human mind. [ Thomas Jefferson ]
It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason as to administer medication to the dead. [ Thomas Jefferson ]
- a word on Reason -
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. [ Antoine de Saint Exupery ]
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you
want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo
breaks down. [ Oprah Winfrey ]
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. [ Hermann Hesse ]
The road to
a friend's house
is never long [ Danish Proverb ]
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend. [ Albert Camus ]
A friend is
someone with whom
I can think aloud. [ Thoreau ]
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. [ anonymous ? ]
The only way to have a friend
is to be one. [ Charles Schulz (Snoopy) ]
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A joy shared
is a joy made double;
a problem shared
is a problem made half. [ Anonymous ]
What's important is invisible to the eye. [ Antoine de Saint Exupery ]
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Men are born ignorant, not stupid;
they are made stupid by education. [
Bertrand Russell ]
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [ Michael Apostolius ]
The most serious case of blindness is found with those who refuse to see. [ Brazilian popular saying ]
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. [ Mark Twain ]
We all know objective truth is not obtainable, that when some event occurs we shall have a multiplicity of subjective truths which we assess and then fabulate into history, into some God-eye version of what really happened. [ Julian Barnes ]
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. [ Thomas Carlyle ]
The world wants to be cheated. So cheat. [ Xaviera Hollander ]
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. [ Aldous Huxley ]
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or
the light won't come in. [ Alan Alda ]
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. [ William James ]
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. [ Andre Gide ]
Where is Life we lost in living,
Where is the Wisdom we lost in knowledge
Where is the Knowledge we lost in information? [ T.S.Eliot ]
I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, “What for?” I said, “I'm going to buy some sugar.” [ Steven Wright ]
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. [ Alvin Toffler ]
Reading unlocks doors. [ anonymous ]
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Once you know that you know, you cannot make yourself believe that you do not know. That is the difference between Knowing and Believing. [ Gerardus ]
All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. [ Robert Fulghum ]
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. [ Martin H. Fischer ]
Knowledge is a queer asset. For if
it broadens our horizons when acquired,
it may also limit our horizons, once acquired. [ TCM ]
More genral quotes: MieNet's Quote Collection
Below: Time & Music quotes.
Time:
A long trip starts with the first step. [ Lao Tse ]
Time: adorner of the ruin, comforter and the only healer when the heart hath bled. [ Lord Byron ]
Time exists because there is activity... Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences. [ Nicholas Berdyaev ]
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. [ Saint Augustine, Confessions ]
Time: nothing else than protraction, but of what I know not; and I marvel, if it be not of the mind itself. [ Saint Augustine ]
It hardly matters if time is real; at the very least we talk as if it is. [ Robert I. Binnick ]
Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light. [ Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, 939 ]
Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. [ Shakespeare, Macbeth, I, iii ]
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. [ Oscar Wilde ]
The future influences the present just as much as the past. [ Nietzsche ]
The present contains nothing more than the past,
and what is found in the effect is already in the cause. [ Henri Louis Bergson ]
The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future too. [ Eugene O'Neill ]
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. [ Merrick Furst ]
Whether time is long or short, and whether space is broad or narrow, depend upon the mind. Those whose minds are at leisure can feel one day as a millennium, and those whose thoughts are expansive can perceive a small house to be as spacious as the universe. [ Hung Tzu-ch'eng ]
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour. [ William Blake ]
The present is only a mathematical line which divides
that part of eternal duration which we call the future,
from that which we call the past. [ H.P.Blavatsky ]
The other day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven ... I almost
went back in time. [ Steven Wright ]
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. [ Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds ]
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. [ anonymous ]
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The future comes one day at a time. [ Dean Acheson ]
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you are likely to see. [ Winston Churchill ]
If you want the present to be different from the past,
study the past. [ Spinoza ]
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. [ Dion Boucicault, London Assurance ]
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. [ Herbert Spencer, Definitions ]
There are, assuredly, two forms of The Eternal:
the formed and the formless, the mortal and the immortal.
the stationary and the moving, the actual and the yon. [ Upanishads ]
To be aged, but not old. [ Charles Aznavour, on the BBC, March 2000. ]
Destiny
is not a matter of chance,
it is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
it is something to be pursued. [ anonymous ]
We feel as if time runs in a past-to-future direction, when we are actively involved in the doing, busy with getting ahead with our projects.
Conversely, we feel as if time runs in a future-to-past direction when, in contrast, we hold a rather passive attitude, in which case "life happens" to us, instead. [ TCM ]
More Time quotes: see here
Below: Music quotes.
Music:
The earth has music for those who listen. [ Anonymous ]
If music be the food of love, play on, play on, play on. [ Shakespeare ]
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If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep the streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a streetsweeper who did his job well. [ Martin Luther King, Jr ]
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. [ Elvis Presley ]
Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art. [ Anonymous ]
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. [ Groucho Marx ]
Wagner's music is better than it sounds. [ Mark Twain ]
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. [ Frank Zappa ]
Architecture in general is frozen music. [ Friedrich von Schelling ]
I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner? [ Frank Zappa , ridiculing the "Tipper Sticker" (the PRMC "parental warning" stickers essentially forced on the music industry) ]
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. [ Kalil Gibran ]
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. [ Claude Debussy ]
I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that." [ Steven Wright ]
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. [ Ludwig van Beethoven ]
How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. [ William Shakespeare ]
Without music, life would be a mistake. [ Anonymous ]
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. [ Ludwig van Beethoven's last words ]
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. [ Ludwig van Beethoven ]
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose. [ Plato ]
A woman, like music, should have a good end. [ F. Schubert ]
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. [ Thomas Carlyle ]
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. [ Edith Sitwell ]
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