The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860) The chances of...
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860) The chances of...
... age but seeing their conditions, I am not too sure about the advantage of a very long life In the end, the cycle of life is rounded up and people go...
A different language is a different vision of life. - Federico Fellini, film director and writer (1920-1993) A language develops out of a need for a people to...
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or...
Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people. - Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) Despite the charming rhyme of "needs"...
"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." - H. L. Hunt (US oil tycoon, reputed to have...
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. - Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her...
"... the amount of pornography available in the United States is considerably greater than thirty or even twenty years ago. One can consider alone the increase...
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. - Tom Robbins, writer (1936- ) There is...
"The soul desires to dwell within the body because, without the members of that body it can neither act nor feel." - Leonardo Da Vinci Only those who have no...
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist,...
"Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors." - W Eugene Smith Passion, in this case, refers to the intensity with which one...
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden As children we are taught, effectively but not consciously, to focus more on our...
"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our...
"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." - Seneca, Roman philosopher, circa 4 BC - 65 AD The assumption Seneca makes is...
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Thomas Henry...
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble. - Rudyard Kipling When we believe the best of everyone, that involves two things....
"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no...
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952 The book "Diary of a Young Girl" was published in 1952....
Good deeds are the best prayer. - Serbian proverb Why would we pray with words to a God that knows everything already? The reason could only be to sort through...
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." - Jonathan Swift, English satirist born in Ireland (1667 Money is a means of acquiring what...
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. - Chinese proverb I like proverbs because they truly represent the collected wisdom of the ...
"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." - Margaret Mead This is different from the primary purpose of TIA, which is to teach the children....
If you have not read the latest Current Commentary on my web site, you should do so ASAP. It will be changed within a couple of days. It is material that was...
"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity." - Walt Schmidt The allusion to the sport of boxing is clear, to win you must overcome the...
"Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow--it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to...
"They can conquer who believe they can." - Virgil, Roman poet; author of the epic poem 'Aeneid' (70-19 B.C.E.) If you want to be fussy about it, it's more...
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." - Stephen Crane, writer...
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