Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
- Thomas Jefferson
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin---real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”
- Alfred D Souza
"People who seek all their applause from outside have their happiness in another's keeping."
- Claudius Claudianus
Nothing is worth more than this day.
- Goethe
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
- Aldous Huxley
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience."
- George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
I broke something today, and I realized that I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.
- Andy Warhol
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
- Lewis Carroll
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
- Mark Twain
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