Quotes By The Day

[conlor]

Kathleen Norris

(7/17/1880-1/18/1966)

US writer

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.
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Get a girl in trouble, then get her out again.
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In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent.
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Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
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None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
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There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
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When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

[conlor]

Heinrich Bullinger
(7/18/1504-9/17/1575)
Swiss Clergyman

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us.
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Ich will lieber jenen antworten, die es für eine Sünde halten, wenn wir der Theologie weltliche Wissenschaften beimischen.
(I want to answer rather that, that consider it to be a sin, if we add the theology worldly sciences.)

[Snowden]

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us.

That's profound..

[conlor]

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

(7/19/1921 - Age 88 )

American Medical Physicist

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
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The world cannot afford the loss of the talents of half its people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.
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We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.
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In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.
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I have long felt that the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

[Snowden]

I have long felt that the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

I think she's right. In my own case, when people discriminate against me, I feel they are jealous or afraid of me. It doesn't intimidate me, I just feel sorry for them -- and we are all discriminated against at times.

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Francesco Petrarch
(7/20/1304-7/19/1374)
Italian Scholar and Poet

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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The aged love what is practical, while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.