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Points to Ponder Quotes

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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

– Albert Einstein

See life steadily and see it whole.

– Matthew Arnold

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

– Franklin P. Adams

Remember, we’re all in this alone.

– Lily Tomlin

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a blessing.

Reality is something you rise above.

– Liza Minnelli

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.

– Philip K. Dick

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

– John Lennon

Publishing a book on poetry … (substitute any other appropriate expression) … is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Purpose is the primary life giver.

– Jim Cathcart

Principles are self-evident, self-validating, timeless and universal. Example: The Law of the Harvest: “You will reap what you sow”.

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.

– Paramahansa Yogananda

Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power.

– William Gaddis

Power is like being a lady … if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

– Margaret Thatcher

Pray as if it was all up to God. Work as if it was all up to you.

People are most lovable when they allow themselves to be vulnerable.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

– Soren Kierkegaard

People are as small as the things that annoy them.

Out of chaos, comes necessity. Out of necessity, comes invention. Out of invention, comes order. And out order, comes chaos.

Pandora’s Rule: Never open a box you didn’t close.

Paradox: If you give up the need for security, you will be secure.

Past experience should be a guidepost, not a hitching post.

Patient, heal thyself!

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

– George Hean Nathan

Patriotism: the virtue of the vicious.

– Oscar Wilde

Patriotism: the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

– Bertrand Russell

Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

– Jean Sibelius

Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat’s ear. But only the wisest of cats would think to look there.

One of my favorite sayings I got off a soda bottle: “No deposit, no return.” To me that means that you’ll get out of life about what you’re willing to put into it.

One person’s constant is another person’s variable.

– Susan Gerhart

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