Random Quotes
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Go here. Keep refreshing the page until you've collected five quotes that really resonate with you, then post them to your journal.
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
-Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
-Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
-Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
-Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
-Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
box_in_the_box:Go here. Keep refreshing the page until you've collected five quotes that really resonate with you, then post them to your journal.
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
-Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
-Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
-Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
-Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
-Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
