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"To commit the perfect crime, you don't have to be intelligent, just in charge of the investigation that follows."
-Unknown"Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."
-Andrew Brown, The IndependentTo the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world.
By Someone unknownIf you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
-- Stephen LevineAny coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?
-- Charles Lindbergh Jr.Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
-- Michael J. Gelb"Ignorance killed the cat, sir. Curiosity was framed." -C.J. Cherryh
"The truth is out there? Anyone know the URL?" - Unknown
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." -Plato
"At one point we decided to fight fire with fire. Well... basically... your house burned even faster." - Anonymous Ex-Fireman
Being good at being stupid doesn't count. - Unknown
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." - Amelia Earhart
"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 harmbBut the harm does not interest them." -- T.S. Eliot
Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
- SocratesI have a firm grip on reality. Now I can strangle it. - Unknown
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.
- J. Robert OppenheimerIf you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
- Winston ChurchillWhatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns. -Mahatma Ghandi
The tragedy of life is what sometimes dies inside a man while he lives. -Schweitzer
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Buckminster Fuller
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Thich Nhat Hanh
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. Harriet Woods
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. Ursula K. LeGuin
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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