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Points to Ponder Quotes

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It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paper work and the other is nostalgia.

– Frank Zappa

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

– Thomas de Quincy

It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem.

It is easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else and still unknown to himself.

– Francis Bacon

It is always easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going. If the horse dies, get off of it.

Irony is when you buy a suit with two pairs of pants and then burn a hole in the coat.

Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?

– Edgar Allan Poe

It ain’t over till it’s over.

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

– H. L. Mencken

In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.

– Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

– Robert Frost

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.

In order to make a difference, you must first be able to tell the difference.

– Stuart Heller

In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.

– Diego Marchi

In an avalanche, each snowflake will claim its innocence.

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.

– Thomas Jefferson

Illusion soothes reality.

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

– Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance doesn’t kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.

– Haitian Proverb

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don’t lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.

– Ada Teixeira

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn’t seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

– William James

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

– Rene Descartes

If you want to retain the loyalty of those who are present, you must show loyalty to those who are absent.

If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.

– Abigail Van Buren

If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn’t reach a conclusion.

If you rest, you rust.

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