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Points to Ponder Quotes

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Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

Attending to symptoms, we lose our purpose.

– Shoma Morita

Average is the best of the worst and the worst of the best.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

– P.G. Wodehouse

As long as we have friendship, today is beautiful. As long as we have memories, yesterday remains. As long as we have hope, tomorrow awaits.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means that you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Anytime you demonstrate something, the number of faults is proportional to the number of viewers.

Argument 1: If you dont need it, you dont have to have it. Argument 2: Better to have it, and not need it…than need it, and not have it.

As a person grows WISER, they talk less and say more.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

– Arthur C. Clarke

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

An uneducated person blames someone else, An educated person blames themself, A wise person neither blames someone else, nor themself.

An acorn is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree

– David Zindell

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

– G. K. Chesterson

AMBITION never gets anywhere until it forms a partnership with WORK.

Almost every significant breakTHROUGH is a breakWITH.

All the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that were ever built, and all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon the earth as powerfully as has this one solitary life.

– James Allan Francis

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

– Ambrose Bierce

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

– Robert Collier

After enlightenment – the laundry.

After you’ve heard two eyewitness accounts of an accident, it makes you wonder about our history.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Action is eloquence.

– William Shakespeare

A wise man doesn’t just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

According to your beliefs, so it is done unto you.

– Ancient Text

Acting is the easiest thing in the world; just don’t get caught doing it!

– Spencer Tracy

A winner loses more often than losers.

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be kind.

– Herbert Spenser

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

– Daniel Webster

A small town is a place where there’s no place to go where you shouldn’t.

– Burt Bacharach

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