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And so our state and yours will really be awake, and not merely dreaming like most societies today, with their shadow battles and their struggles for political power, which they treat as some great prize.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When I was finally dismissed, one of the assistant coaches came over to reassure me. “Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn’t he?”
I could barely muster a “yeah.”
“That’s a good thing,” the assistant told me. “When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.”Speaker: Randy PauschPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life leaves me in a constant state of inelegance.
Speaker: GayPosted: 21 Nov 2007 at 11:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“When Spirit speaks to spirit, the imprint upon the soul is far more difficult to erase.
Speaker: President Joseph Fielding SmithSource: “The First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve,” Improvement Era, Nov. 1966, p. 979.Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who knows others is learned;
He who knows himself is wiseSpeaker: Lao TzuPosted: 20 Mar 2010 at 5:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God gave us memories, that we may have June roses in the December of our lives.
Speaker: James BarriePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you’re asking ‘why should I’ instead of ‘how can I,’ you’re asking the wrong questions.
Speaker: David H. BurtonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Ughhhh”
I guess that means hello in Blake talk!Speaker: Blake and IvanSource: when doing a standup call and we say hello to Blake and just here ughhPosted: 27 Nov 2012 at 10:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nonbreathing people get all of the breaks. Clearly, the easiest way to become “great” is to get “good” and then get “dead.”
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Fargo Rock CityPosted: 08 Nov 2009 at 8:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
Speaker: Emo PhillipsSource: http://www.quotationspage.comPosted: 08 Aug 2009 at 6:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
Speaker: John Maynard KeynesSource: Quoted in: K. Eric Drexler Engines of Creation: the Coming Era of Nanotechnology, Bantam, New York, 1987, p 231. (http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html)Posted: 06 Jul 2009 at 8:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them.
And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes.Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire.
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!Speaker: Rudyard KiplingPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmic primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering…
Speaker: W. S. GilbertSource: The MikadoPosted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is one thing to be tempted,
And another thing to fall.Speaker: William ShakespearePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.
Speaker: Groucho MarxPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
La gloire ou le mérite de certains hommes est de bien écrire ; et de quelques autres, c’est de n'écrire point.
Speaker: Jean de la BruyèrePosted: 13 Feb 2009 at 8:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!