Miscellaneous quotes
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Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935“Ideals and Doubts”, 10 Illinois Law Rev 3 (1915).
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862February 3, 1860- CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; CCLXXXIV
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
Erica Jongborn 1942How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Orson Welles1915–1985Lines attributed to Welles as the character Harry Lime in the film The Third Man (1949).If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
