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    Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.

    Albert Einstein
     



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    For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. “Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom? “Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon? Give me a break!

    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
     



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    I couldn’t survive my own pessimism if I didn’t have some kind of sunny little dream. … Human beings will be happier — not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie — but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia. That’s what I want for me.

    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
     



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    Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we’re discovering we work for Fox.

    David Frum, Bush speechwriter
     



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    I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

    Steve Jobs
     



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    I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can’t stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy. We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms.

    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
     



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    Enjoy every day; make friends; don’t squabble.

    Alice Reid, Quoted in The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die, John Izzo
     



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    You must concentrate on one thing, then everything else becomes easier. But if you concentrate on many things, you achieve nothing. My guru Baba Allaudin Khan told me this when I was 15 and I was torn between playing sitar or being a dancer. It changed my life.

    Ravi Shankar
     



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    Running a country is so difficult, it is generally only rather limited people who feel they are up to the task.

    Alain de Botton
     



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    Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

    Jonathan Kozel
     



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    Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

    Robert Louis Stevenson
     



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    The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

    Jimmy Johnson
     



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    Live as if you were already dead.

    Zen Admonition
     



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    As the proverb goes… “To find your way in the fog, follow the tracks of the oxcart ahead.” We have plenty of reasonable paths to follow.

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    To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

    Hippocrates
     






               

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