Meme swunked from rfachir and kennahijja

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Go to this page: http://quotationspage.com/random.php3, and post 5 that resonate with you - refresh as needed.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

(NB: a translation for the last of these is the well-known legal principle that the freedom of motion of my fist is limited by the position of my neighbour's nose.)

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Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative

A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
Kelvin Throop III

Reminds me of my 16th birthday-- my folks bought me a dictionary of quotations.

I read the entire blessed thing. Loved it.