Today's Quotes
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Anonymous
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
Eric Hoffer
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)
Things do not change; we change.
James Webb
Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Pablo Picasso, last words
Drink to me.
Kurt Vonnegut
One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
Dbjanski
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Ira Glasser
You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.