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September 2004 Quotes

A theory is something nobody
believes, except the person who made it.
An experiment is something everybody
believes, except the person who made it.
Albert Einstein

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what each man wishes, that
he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes

There is no despair so absolute as that
which comes with the first moments of
our first great sorrow, when we have not
yet known what it is to have suffered
and be healed, to have despaired
and have recovered hope.
George Eliot

Only dead fish swim with the
stream all of the time.
Linda Ellerbee




Reality is that which, when you stop
believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K Dick

You may not realize it when it happens,
but a kick in the teeth may be
the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney

The magic of first love is our ignorance
that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli

In all recorded history there has not been
one economist who has had to worry about
where the next meal would come from.
Peter F Drucker

Every vice was once a virtue, and may
become respectable again, just as hatred
becomes respectable in time of war.
Will Durant

Fear prophets ... and those prepared
to die for the truth, as a rule make
many others die with them, often before
them, and at times instead of them.
Umberto Eco

I have learned to live each day as it comes,
and not to borrow trouble by dreading
tomorrow. It is the dark menace of
the future that makes cowards of us.
Dorothy Day

Vengeance is not the point; change is.
But the trouble is that in most [people's]
minds the thought of victory and the
thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
Barbara Deming

To know what people really think,
pay regard to what they do,
rather than what they say.
Rene Descartes