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"It may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve."
- Thoreau
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"It may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve." - Thoreau |
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"Below are quotes that appear randomly at the top of my page."
- Mike
"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "All things are difficult before they are easy." - Dr. Thomas Fuller "Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console mediocre people over their lack of fortune and merit." - La Rochefoucauld "Don't lay up your treasures on earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves can break through and steal them." - Matthew "Mmmmph! That's gotta be tight!" - Jerri Blank "I'd like to solve the puzzle Pat." - Ike "Simplify! Simplify! Simplify!" - Thoreau "There cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint." - Leo Strauss "Liberal relativism...in itself is a seminary of intolerance." - Leo Strauss "We need both the rule of law and the power to escape it." - Harvey Mansfield "Necessity knows no law." - Pubillius Syrus "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater "I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad." - Thoreau "It may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve." - Thoreau "Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed?" - Thoreau "Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives." - Thoreau "The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man." - Thoreau "I am at two with nature." - Woody Allen "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf." - Thomas Fuller "O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!" - Shakespeare "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." - Aristotle "What profit has man from all the labor which he toils at under the sun?" - Ecclesiastes 1.3 "Of what use are riches to the owner except to feast his eyes upon?" - Ecclesiastes 5.10 "It is not wisdom to complain that the past was better than the present." - Ecclesiastes 7.10 "What value, then, shall we place on the wealth of the earth?" - Horace "I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study
mathematics and philosophy." - Thomas Jefferson "Beware the wrath of a patient man." - John Dryden "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move." - Matthew 17:20 "Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical." - John Fowles "If you hire all A people they'll also hire A people. But if you hire B people, they'll hire the C people and then it's all over." - Joel Spolsky "A nation that tries to deal with its social problems completely before tackling expansion and technological progress will be destroyed by the nations that don't." - Pantero Blanco "There is no wealth but life." - John Ruskin "The fault finder will find fault even in paradise." - Thoreau "We must make an effort in the United States. We must make an effort to understand." - RFK "Writers are like artillery, they clear the way for our infantry." - Nikita Khrushchev "The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." - D.H. Lawrence
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