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my page of interests. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
--Albert Einstein
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
--Goethe
Lord, by Your Spirit grant that we may live with such integrity that when we simply give our word no one will doubt what has been heard.
--David De Haan
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
--Samuel Smiles
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see,
and hits it.
--Unknown
If knowledge creates problems, then it is not through ignorance that we will solve them.
--Isaac Asimov
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect.
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become
towards the defects of others.
--Joseph Addison
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor
both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that
is the soul of genius.
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old
problems from a new angle requires a creative imagination and
marks the real advances in science. The important thing is to not
stop questioning.
--Albert Einstein
Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.
--Isaac Asimov
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools
do.
--Benjamin Franklin
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.
--Galileo
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is the point: Until you are ready to die for a cause bigger than yourself, you are not really ready to live. There is great freedom in moving from seeking to preserve your life to giving your life to the glory of God.
--Unknown
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but
I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do
interfere with what I can do.
--Edward Everett Hale
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful and committed citizens can change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
--Unknown
I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It's not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much confidence in non-scientists being wrong.
--Isaac Asimov
But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it.
It's all a matter of training.
--Dorothy Sayers
Failure is the line of least persistence.
--Stephanie Martinz
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and
Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
--Albert Einstein
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and
if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there
is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
--Blaise Pascal
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
--Voltaire
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound
truth.
-- Niels Bohr
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
--Albert Einstein
If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be
without flavor.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
I hear them saying, "You'll never change things, and no
matter what you do it's still the same thing." But it's not
the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know
that it will not change me.
--Garth Brooks
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands,
but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
--Maksim Gorky
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid
torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to
make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to
future generations.
--George Bernard Shaw
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are just too bright and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice...but still, the place you live is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.
--The Shawshank Redemption
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And
they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years
ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go
to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do
the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are
hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the
best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one
that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone,
and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
-- President John F. Kennedy, Houston, Texas, September 12, 1962.
We meant to change a nation, but instead, we changed the world.
--Ronald Reagan
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart;
and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no
brains.
--Sir Winston Chruchill
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to
ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl
should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a
lifelong desire to know it.
--Sir William Haley
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live
out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to
be self-evident; that all men are created equal". I have a
dream that one day . . . we will be able to join hands and sing
in the words of that old Negro spiritual, "Free at last!
Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
My friends, we did it. We weren't just marking time, we made a
difference. We made (America) stronger - we made (America) freer
- and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad. Not bad at
all. And so, goodbye. God bless you. And God bless the United
States of America.
--Ronald Reagan (in his farewell address)
We are for freedom of speech everywhere. We are for freedom to worship everywhere. We are for freedom to learn for every person. And because in our time you can build a bomb in your country and bring it to my country, what goes on in your country is very much my business. And so we are for freedom from tyranny everywhere, whether in the guise of political oppression, or economic slavery, or religious fanaticism. That most fundamental idea cannot be met with merely our support. It has to be met with our strength: diplomatically, economically, materially. And if pharaoh still doesn't free the slaves, then he gets the plagues or he gets my cavalry, whichever gets there first.
--President Bartlett of "The West Wing"
The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.
--Garth Brooks
If nothing is worth dying for, then nothing is worth living for.
--Unknown
Real education must ultimately be limited to those who insist
on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
--Ezra Pound
I shall never flaunt the little learning that I have acquired
through the care and help my father has given me. If I have
learned anything, it is only because he took care to teach me.
Had he not taken upon himself the trouble of instructing me, I
would be as ignorant as many other children.
--Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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