Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes
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Lying on my hotel bed, mesmerized by the lazy turns of the ceiling fan, I pondered the possibility that I was nuts. It wasn’t unheard of, even in the days of the Bitchun Society, and even though there were cures, they weren’t pleasant.
Cory Doctorow
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Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
Aeschylus
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Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
Bertrand Russell
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If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
Alexander Hamilton
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Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.
Marcus Buckingham
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Margaret Mead
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Nice guys finish last.
Leo Durocher
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Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.
August Strindberg
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As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,
Float in the garden when no wind blows,
Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;
So the old tunes float in my mind,
And go from me leaving no trace behind,
Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.
Sara Teasdale
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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The biotechnology wave is similar to the information technology wave of the 1980s and 1990s.
Dietmar Hopp
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In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
Robert Wilson Lynd