You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose…
URSULA K. LE GUINMonday Motivation
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
AYN RAND -
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME -
Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
P. J. O'ROURKE -
That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT -
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
BENOIT MANDELBROT -
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Memory, Sweet and deadly Broken and lovely Loved and lonely.
K. MCKEE -
I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, ‘This is for you, Jesus, ‘ and knocked it in.
AARON BADDELEY -
Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted.
IMAM ALI -
They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
BILLY JOEL -
One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
ABBA GOOLD WOOLSON -
By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
Confidence is the best thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
MELISSA LUNA -
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
JUVENAL -
Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister.
BOB IRWIN