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Points to Ponder Quotes
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We are more like human BECOMINGS that we are human BEINGS.
– Anonymous
We ain’t what we want to be, And we ain’t what we gonna be, But we ain’t what we wuz.
– Carolina mountain proverb
We are a combination of nature and nurture, wired behavior and acquired behavior.
– Grant M. Bright
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
– Salvador Hardin
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
– Albert Schweitzer
Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.
– Peter F. Drucker
Uncommon wisdom is knowing how to apply it.
– from ad for Wachovia Securities
Truth is so obscure in these times & falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
– Blaise Pascal
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
– George Burns
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
– Anonymous
Treat strangers as if you expected to see them again.
– Anonymous
Today’s laurels are tomorrow’s compost.
– Anonymous
To read a poem Is to hear with our eyes To hear it Is to see it with our ears.
– Octavio Paz
To look up and not down, to look forward and not back, to look out and not in; and to lend a hand.
– Hale
To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy… is the true aim and end to life.
– Llewelyn Powers
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Time is a trick of nature, designed to prevent everything from happening at once.
– Anonymous
Time is nature’s way of making sure that everything doesn’t happen at once.
– Anonymous
Thought begins in private, character in public.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This life is a test; it is only a test. If it were a real life, you would have received instructions on where to go and what to do.
– Anonymous
Those who are willing to speak their mind only while enveloped in a cloud of anonymity should not expect their thoughts to bask in the sunshine of acceptance.
– Grant M. Bright
Things are more like they used to be than they are now.
– Anonymous
Things not worth doing, are not worth doing well.
– Kenneth Blanchard
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.
– Anonymous
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
– Elie Wiesel
There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute force and ignorance.
– Anonymous
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
– Robertson Davies
There is nothing as annoying as a good EXAMPLE!!
– Mark Twain
There is nothing to scratch but the surface.
– Anonymous
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