But the fruit that can fall without shaking,
/ Indeed is too mellow for me.
-Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, author (1689-1762)
Late by 172+ years
There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
-Hubert Humphrey, US Vice President (1911-1978)
Expiry dates...
Don't think that time will change our life,
Time only changes the expiry dates of the opportunities!
Time only changes the expiry dates of the opportunities!
House is a home...
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
-Margaret Fuller, author, critic, and women's rights advocate (1810-1850)
-Margaret Fuller, author, critic, and women's rights advocate (1810-1850)
MOST OF THEM...
Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick, preacher and author (24 May 1878-1969)
-Harry Emerson Fosdick, preacher and author (24 May 1878-1969)
Corrections and losses
"Far more money has been lost by investors trying to anticipate
corrections, than lost in the corrections themselves."
- Peter Lynch
corrections, than lost in the corrections themselves."
- Peter Lynch
Change in perspective
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
-Alan Kay, computer scientist (b. 17 May 1940)
Computer Science is...
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
-Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer scientist (1930-2002)
Alluding to the research
The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.
-Ronald Ross, doctor and Nobel laureate (1857-1932) [alluding to the research done to get rid of the mosquito
Love of a mother
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Character will take care
"If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself."
~ Woodrow Wilson
at the burden of...
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail.
-Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (7 May 1861-1941)
-Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (7 May 1861-1941)
20 years ago & after
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do."
~ Mark Twain
to do differently
"Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently."
~ Sharon E. Rainey
~ Sharon E. Rainey
Best relieved...
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
-Christopher Morley, writer (5 May 1890-1957)
to believe anything
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
-William Kingdon Clifford, mathematician and philosopher (1845-1879)
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