Albert Camus on Nature

July 11th, 2008

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus

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Thomas A. Edison on War

July 10th, 2008

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

- Thomas A. Edison

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George Bernard Shaw on Age

July 10th, 2008

Youth is wasted on the young.

- George Bernard Shaw

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Erik H. Erikson on Death

July 10th, 2008

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

- Erik H. Erikson

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Doris Lessing on Age

July 10th, 2008

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

- Doris Lessing

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Dan Quayle on Politics

July 9th, 2008

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

- Dan Quayle

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Charles A. Jaffe on Business

July 9th, 2008

Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

- Charles A. Jaffe

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Barbara Jordan on Society

July 9th, 2008

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

- Barbara Jordan

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Henry David Thoreau on Sports

July 9th, 2008

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

- Henry David Thoreau

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Henry J. Kaiser on Jobs & Working

July 8th, 2008

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.

- Henry J. Kaiser

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