"The earth is the very
quintessence of the
human condition."
- Hannah Arendt
It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever
found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but
it must likewise be added, that he had not often a
friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
- Samuel Johnson
"Try to make at least one person happy every day, and then
in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred
and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your
contribution to the fund of general enjoyment."
- Sydney Smith, English Clergyman
"We are drawn to our television sets each April
the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident."
- Vincent Canby
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers
to our true selves, to one another, and to the
spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from
an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
- R. D. Laing
Leadership is based on inspiration, not
domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
- William Arthur Wood
Mark Twain
13 years ago
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