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Points to Ponder Quotes

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There is one thing to admire about TV-sitcom families – they never waste time watching television!

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

– Thomas Huxley

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

– Marshall McLuhan

There is no abstract art. You must start with something.

– Pablo Picasso

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

– John Truslow Adams

There are two kinds of cleverness. One consists of thinking of a bright remark in time to say it. The other consists of thinking of it in time not to say it.

There are only two forces that unite men — fear and interest.

– Napolean Bonaparte

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

– George Santayana

There are no free throws in life, even when you get fouled.

– Deborah Miller Palmore

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

– Helen Keller

The world is not only queerer than we imagine – it is queerer than we can imagine.

– Aldous Huxley

The world is the way it is because otherwise there would be no one to ask why it is the way it is.

– Steven Weinberg

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

– Albert Einstein

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

– Walt Whitman

The word culture is taken from the word agriculture. And agriculture is what is done to raw land to make it better than it was originally without changing its nature.

– Jacques Barzun

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

– Dolly Parton

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

– Herbert Agar

The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a “clock” can exist without there being a Clockmaker.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

– Eden Philpotts

The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

– Flannery O’Connor

The time comes in every life when you feel like you are bowling from behind a curtain.

The trees that bend a little to the harmless breeze, Will later grow to withstand the wild wind.

The tallest blade of grass is the first moved down.

– Russian proverb

The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

The role of the press is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

– Edward Willis Scripps

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his TONGUE.

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