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Points to Ponder Quotes

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The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.

– E. Joseph Cossman

The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

– William James

Temptation usually comes in through a door that has been deliberately left open.

– Arnold Glasow

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn’t have in your home.

– David Frost

Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he’ll believe you…. Tell him that a bench has wet paint upon it and he’ll have to touch it to be sure.

TALENT is knowing how to do something; JUDGMENT is knowing whether to do it.

Take care of the beginning and the end will take care of itself.

Suits, ties, and panty hose are not how you dress for adventure.

– Peter Block

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Sometimes, silence is the most important part of a song.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

– Ralph Hodgson

Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

– Sigmund Freud

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

– Nicolas Boileau

Sometimes a thoroughbred has to do the work of a mule.

Sometimes I get the feeling that the whole world is against me, but deep down inside I know that’s not true. There are a few people who are probably neutral.

Sometimes when you rationaLIZE what you are really doing is making up rational LIES.

Some people seem to easily become involved with projects that could only be described as a very big dances around a very small fires.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

Some people like advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Some people see more in a walk around the block than others see in a trip around the world.

Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.

Some days you’re the bug. Some days you’re the windshield.

Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.

Sitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Sleep, riches and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

– Jean Paul Richter

So many trails; so little time.

– Grant M. Bright

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

– Marvin Minsky

Shrouds don’t come with pockets.

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

– Henri Poincare

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