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You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
Topic: Melancholy
Author: Doug Floyd
Statistics is like a Bikini; what is revealed is suggestive, but what is concealed is vital.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
Topic: Science
Author: Alexander Pope
I was not born under a rhyming planet. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourselves.
Topic: Dreams
Author: Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Topic: Apathy
Author: Georg C Lichtenberg
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Topic: Pride
Author: Josh Billings
People who value their privileges above their principles, soon lose both.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
Topic: Hospitals
Author: Florence Nightingale
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Topic: Time
Author: Dean Acheson
Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
Topic: Profanity
Author: Jeremy Taylor
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!
Topic: Blindness
Author: John Milton
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Topic: Education
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Topic: Motivation
Author: Jim Ryun
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Carl Bard
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Topic: Society
Author: Giordano Bruno
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Topic: Obstacles
Author: Eugene S Wilson
Ride the air In whirlwind.
Topic: Storms
Author: John Milton
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
Topic: All About the Self
Author: Meister Eckhart
They never fail who die In a great cause.
Topic: Success
Author: Lord Byron