Wisdom

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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Yiddish proverb




Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Vernon Law, baseball pitcher




Show me a good loser in professional sports and I'll show you an idiot.

Leo Durocher




"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."

Luciano de Crescenzo




And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln




"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."

John G. Riefenbaker




"We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality."

Bryan Singer, director of "The Usual Suspects"




The world needs more Heroes.




"It often takes more courage to change ones opinion than to keep it."

Willy Brandt




"To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell; Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."

Milton




The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."

Isaac Asimov




"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Arthur C. Clarke




Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Probably not Arthur C. Clarke




One kind word can warm three winter months.

Chinese proverb




Admittedly, there are a lot of things that are better than sex, and a lot more that are worse; but there's nothing quite like it...




"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow."

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"




Lonely is a man without love.




True Legends never die.




"The souls of those who have quit the body violently are most pure Such end true lovers hath"

Fields of the Nephilim




"Like a river my life hurries by If I jump in perhaps I might drown But if I don't then my spirit could die Before that change on the weather comes 'round"

Eric Bogle




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