Archive for January, 2008

Victor Hugo on Age

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

- Victor Hugo

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Marlene Dietrich on Movies

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

I never enjoyed working in a film.

- Marlene Dietrich

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Werner Erhard on Love

Friday, January 25th, 2008

You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.

- Werner Erhard

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Agnes Repplier on Humor

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

- Agnes Repplier

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John Lennon on Love

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

- John Lennon

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Paul Valery on Science

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

- Paul Valery

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Debbie Harry on Nature

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

I don’t mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it’s got my name on it.

- Debbie Harry

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William Penn on Time

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

- William Penn

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George S. Patton on Imagination

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

- George S. Patton

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Thomas A. Edison on Jobs & Working

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

- Thomas A. Edison

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