Philosophic
"The art of time management is really the ability to blow people off without guilt." (Scott Adams)

"Boredom: the desire for desires." (Leo Tolstoy)

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it." (Jean-Jacquez Rousseau)

"Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in." (Leonardo da Vinci)

"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves." (Daniel Webster)

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." (Herman Melville)

"When it is dark enough you can see the stars." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"[Wisdom is] the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves." (Eugen Peterson)

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils." (John Stark)

"God does not bring war upon us. We bring it upon ourselves. Man's inhumanity to man is not God-driven." (Harry Reginald Hammond WWII Vet)

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." (Aristotle)

"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." (Napoleon Hill)

"The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence." (Robert J. Shiller)

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery." (Mary B. Yates)

"Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in grief." (Proverbs 14:13)

"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it." (Rochefoucald)

"A great man is he who does not lose his child's heart." (Mencius)

"There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." (Proverbs 14:12)

"Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage,
ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else
thrown in." (C.S. Lewis, from Mere Christianity)

"Nothing is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something
that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone." (John McCain)

"Rebuke a wise man and he will love you. Instruct a wise man and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man and he will add to his learning" (Proverbs 9:8-9)

"Where the world ceases to be the stage for personal hopes and desires, where we, as free beings, behold it in wonder, to question and to contemplate, there we enter the realm of Art and of Science. If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science. If we show it in forms whose interrelationships are not accessibly to our conscious thought but are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art. Common to both is the devotion to something beyond the personal, removed from the arbitrary." (Albert Einstein)

"You can't stop birds flying over your head but you can stop them nesting in your hair." (Martin Luther regarding improper thoughts)

"This is the point where we must go forward, go back, or stay here." (Ben Cacace)

"You can remember the past, you can think about the future, but you can only live in the present." (Ben Cacace)

"No day in which you help another is a complete loss" (Ben Cacace)

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." (Plutarch )

"Good manners are like traffic rules for society" (Michael Levine)

"Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes." (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

"Life is the garment we continually alter, but which never seems to fit." (David McLord)

"Character is who you are in the dark" (D.L Moody)

"The sense of beauty is a tuning fork in the brain that hums when we stumble on something beautiful." (David Gelernter)

"To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence." (Aristotle)

"Intelligence is the ability for meaningful action." (Bob Schleser)

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box." (Italian Proverb)

"When you're right it doesn't matter how many people think you're wrong." (Ben Cacace, based on quote of Einstein)

"For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity." (C.S. Lewis, from The Screwtape Letters )

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that's why they call it the present." (John A. Larson)

"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular." (Adlai Stevenson)

"Pain of the mind hurts more than pain of the body." (Little Man Tate)

"The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the f-word."

"It takes wisdom to understand wisdom: for what is music if the audience is deaf?" (Walter Lippman)

"He is good at what he does, but what he does is not good." (Ben Cacace)

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." (Booker Taliaferro Washington)

"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." (Krishnamurti)

"Hardship makes average life better." (Ben Cacace)

"We live. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." (Henry David Thoreau)

"The world is comic to those who think and tragic to those who feel." (Horace Walpole)

"The unexamined life is not worth living." (Socrates)

"Only good change is progress." (Ben Cacace)

"That which does not kill us, only makes us stronger." (Nietzche)

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