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Points to Ponder Quotes
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The reason lightening doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn’t there the second time.
– Willie Tyler
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
– B.F. Skinner
The price of greatness is responsibility
– Winston Churchill
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
– Bertrand Russell
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
– Niels Bohr
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
– Edmund Burke
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
– Eugene McCarthy
The only true aging is the erosion of one’s ideals.
– Anonymous
The only completely consistent people are dead.
– Aldous Huxley
The only difference between a RUT and a grave is how deep, how wide and how long you are in it.
– Charles Garfield
The one who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
– Anonymous
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
– Anonymous
The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
– Anonymous
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
– Albert Einstein
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
– H. L. Mencken
The most important 12 inch gaps in the universe exist between your head, your heart, your gut, and your hands.
– Grant M. Bright
The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
– Robert Frost
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.
– Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
– Blaise Pascal
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
– William James
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
– Joseph Addison
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
– H.T. Leslie
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
– Marcus Aurelius
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
– Albert Einstein
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
– Lord Acton
The child is the father of the man.
– William Wordsworth
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
– Ronald Reagan
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
– Anonymous
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