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Points to Ponder Quotes

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

– Alan Dean Foster

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.

– Kris Kristofferson

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications … are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

– Doug Larson

FANATIC: Someone who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

– Aldous Huxley

EXPERT: An “EX” is a has-been such as in “Ex-President”, a “SPURT” is a drip under pressure, so an EXPERT is a “has-been drip under pressure”!

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

– Peter F. Drucker

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

– Alfred North Whitehead

Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

– Albert Einstein

Everything that is done in the world, is done by hope.

– Martin Luther

Everything is simpler than you think, and more complex than you imagine.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

– Bertrand Russell

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed … Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle … when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

– Thomas Huxley

Ever notice that people who try to give you ADVICE never seem as intelligent as those who ask for yours?

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

– Pablo Picasso

Every action has an equal and opposite criticism.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

– Jacob Bronowski

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

– Pablo Picasso

Every day, try to help someone who can’t reciprocate your kindness.

– Coach John Wooden

Eternity is the only time measure that can do justice to all the possibilities life has to offer.

– “The Watchtower” magazine

Even if you’re on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

– Will Rogers

Emotion is not something shameful, subordinate, second-rate; It is a supremely valid phase of humanity at its noblest and most mature.

Empty wagons make the most noise.

– Mrs. Dukes, Nick’s 8th grade teacher

EGOTISM and CONCEIT are the only diseases that make everybody sick except those that have them.

Dreams come true; without that possibility nature would not incite us to have them.

– John Updike

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