augmentedfourth's Quote Board, page 5
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides.
Speaker: Artur SchnabelPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
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The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without knowing it happened.
Speaker: Normon M. ThomasSource: Campaign Speech 1948Posted: 24 Oct 2008 at 8:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I really didn’t foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course – the computer industry didn’t even foresee that the century was going to end.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 28 Oct 2008 at 11:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Speaker: Edward R. MurrowPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 9:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the two will hover, spinning, inches above the ground. With a giant buttered-cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago.
Speaker: John FrazeeSource: The Journal of Irreproducible ResultsPosted: 31 Oct 2008 at 2:07 PMComments: 1 -
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
Speaker: Beryl PfizerPosted: 12 Nov 2008 at 7:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 10:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types—the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.
Speaker: C. S. Lewis, author (1898-1963)Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts—it’s able to endure temptations—because it faces [them], not because it pretends [they’re] not there.
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The perfect race car crosses the finish line in first place and then falls to pieces.
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!