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Post by Basil on Jan 27, 2011 21:02:52 GMT 7
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
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Post by Basil on Jan 27, 2011 22:48:45 GMT 7
“Proverbs are like butterflies; some are caught and some fly away”
German Proverb
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Post by Basil on Jan 27, 2011 23:40:06 GMT 7
“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”
Sydney J. Harris
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Post by Basil on Jan 28, 2011 0:53:21 GMT 7
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”
Eliel Saarinen
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Post by Basil on Jan 28, 2011 0:56:37 GMT 7
“To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides.”
William James
Comments:
I still haven't learned to argue within context before trying to extrapolate my argument. My friend gave an answer which pointed out what was wrong with my initial argument. =P
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Post by Basil on Jan 28, 2011 21:03:06 GMT 7
“Fatigue is the best pillow”
Benjamin Franklin
Comments:
Here's to those moments we feel wish we could linger in bed.
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Post by Basil on Jan 28, 2011 21:04:29 GMT 7
“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment”
Dale Carnegie
Comments:
After seeing a Carnegie passage in philosophy 101, I can't help but wonder if philosophers ever read self help books.
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Post by Basil on Jan 28, 2011 21:06:33 GMT 7
“Everything in life has an opposite. While one brings devastation; the other brings peace.”
Freddy Mella
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Post by Basil on Jan 28, 2011 21:57:52 GMT 7
“A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.”
William Arthur Ward
Comments:
This is for the moments I forgot to say thank you.
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Post by Basil on Jan 30, 2011 15:10:33 GMT 7
“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
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Post by Basil on Jan 30, 2011 20:23:34 GMT 7
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
Agatha Christie
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Post by Basil on Jan 30, 2011 20:25:04 GMT 7
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
A. A. Milne
Comments:
I still remember my one of my former homeroom teacher saying that this might be selfish in a way. o.O
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Post by Basil on Jan 30, 2011 21:04:19 GMT 7
“Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.”
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Post by Basil on Jan 31, 2011 22:31:28 GMT 7
“Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...”
Michael Stipe
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Post by Basil on Jan 31, 2011 22:43:09 GMT 7
“Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.”
Frank A. Clark
Comments:
A healthy dose of cynicism helps make life bearable. Otherwise life is like an orange... or an apple... or a muffin. Depends on who you ask. ^^;
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