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- I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time…
- Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
- What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain…
- Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
- But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth…
- Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
- Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other…
- I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
- 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…
- There is no WHY, since the moment simply is, and since all of us are simply trapped in the moment, like bugs in Amber.
- In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out…
- When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up…
- - Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this…
- Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than…
- Harry closed his eyes. He never wanted to open them again. His heart sent this message to his molecules: "For reasons obvious to all of…
- Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of…
- There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
- We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
- The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And,…
- Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on…
- We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy.…
- I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My…
- Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I…
- Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
- For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, the demand that…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong