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May. 25th, 2008 10:26 am
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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.)

Date: 2008-05-28 09:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stigandnasty919.livejournal.com
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal (1925 - )


I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778), (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)


What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine


There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)


A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"


I like this game......

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