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Points to Ponder Quotes

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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no long in your power – he’s free again.

You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

– Stephen Wright

You can’t tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.

You don’t have to be famous to be unforgettable.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

You cannot THINK about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.

You can pick your friends; you can pick your nose; but don’t try to pick your friend’s nose!

You can see a lot by observing.

You belong to a small, but select group of confused people.

– Message in fortune cookie

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

– James Thurber

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is the present. Treat it as a gift.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

– J.M. Straczynski

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

– Timothy Leary

Work without purpose is insane; purpose with no work is nonsense.

– Ysaac J. Chabo

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed.

With great power comes great responsibility.

Without discipline, there is no life at all.

– Katharine Hepburn

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Wisdom is everywhere.

Who is it that says what ‘they say’? Who is the responsible subject of that social saying, the impersonal subject of ‘they say’?

Who is that other, those ‘others’, to whom I entrust the task of being me? “

Where facts are few, experts are many.

– Donald R. Gannon

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.

– Leonardo da Vinci

Wherever you go…There you are.

– Buckaroo Banzai

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

– Samuel Johnson

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close.

When you fall, don’t get up empty handed.

When you have got a good thing, where you want it, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

– Winston Churchill

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