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| � �If brains was blackpowder he couldn�t blow his own nose.� �Stephen King � Knowledge is seeing the fire. Wisdom is feeling the burn. � �I don�t pretend to have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.� �Arthur C. Clarke � �It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.� �Albert Einstein. � �Brevity is the soul of wit.� �William Shakespeare � If you don�t control your own mind someone else will. � A quiet man is a man with many thoughts � We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit.� �Aristotle � �I have not failed. I�ve just found 10,000 ways that won�t work.� �Thomas Edison � If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. � A person who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; a person who doesn�t is a fool forever� � Average people discuss people. Intelligent people discuss events. Great people discuss ideas. � To accomplish great things one must not only act, but also dream; not just plan, but also believe. � �The only real risk is the risk of thinking too small.� �Frances Moor Lappe � You can get all A�s in school and still flunk life. � �Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.� �Oscar Wilde � �Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes.� �Ralph Waldo Emerson � �Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk but a wise man speaks.� �Ben Jonson � �Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.� �Blaise Pascal � Don�t tell me the sky is the limit; there are footprints on the moon. � �Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes the touch of a genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.� �Albert Einstein � Do not sell yourself short; never let what you can�t do define what you can do. � �You�re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.� �Winnie the Pooh � �Average is your enemy.� �Lance Armstrong � �Success is just a matter of attitude.� �Darcy C. Gibbons � �Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.� �Albert Szent-Gyorgyi � �Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.� �Ralph Marston � �Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.� �Alfred, Lord Tennyson � �Don�t bother to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.� �William Faulkner � �It is better to be second out of a thousand than first out of two.� �Shujan Quadir � �The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were when we created them.� �Albert Einstein � �Words-so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.� �Nathaniel Hawthorne � �What�s the difference between genius and stupidity? Genius has limits.� �Albert Einstein � �I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted, just very, very curious.� �Albert Einstein � �You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.� �Noquio Mahfouz � �Never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.� �Albert Einstein � �If you can�t convince them, confuse them.� �Harry Truman � �Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.� �Bern Williams � �Everybody has their ups and downs so I decided to have mine between good and great.� �Daniel Hoogtrerp � �I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.� �Walt Kelly � �Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don�t bite everybody.� �Stainslaw Lec |
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