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A good question is like a miniskirt. Long enough to cover the essentials, but short enough to keep everyone interested. -- Halsey, Charles

Vacilando — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 13:37:51 +0000

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A good question is like a miniskirt. Long enough to cover the essentials, but short enough to keep everyone interested.

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Halsey, Charles

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. -- Horace

Vacilando — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:00:21 +0000

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

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Horace

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(Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

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We are what we frequently do. -- Aristotle

Vacilando — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:03:26 +0000

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We are what we frequently do.

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Aristotle

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We all are joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen. -- Kurt Vonnegut

Vacilando — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:02:43 +0000

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We all are joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.

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Kurt Vonnegut

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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet -- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Vacilando — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:44:26 +0000

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet

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Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar. -- Machado, Antonio

Vacilando — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 12:21:32 +0000

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Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar.

Author

Machado, Antonio

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antonio_Machado

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Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture and save it from the funny tricks of time. -- ABBA

Vacilando — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:47:34 +0000

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Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture and save it from the funny tricks of time.

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ABBA

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Slipping Through My Fingers

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Krúžok na kľúče je starý vynález, ktorý nám umožňuje stratiť všetky kľúče naraz. -- (unknown)

Vacilando — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:06:08 +0000

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Krúžok na kľúče je starý vynález, ktorý nám umožňuje stratiť všetky kľúče naraz.

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(unknown)

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If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re heading. -- (unknown)

Vacilando — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:06:32 +0000

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If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re heading.

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(unknown)

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If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. -- (unknown)

Vacilando — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:08:22 +0000

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If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.

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(unknown)

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Kto pravidelne cvičí, zomrie zdravší! -- (unknown)

Vacilando — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:08:08 +0000

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Kto pravidelne cvičí, zomrie zdravší!

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(unknown)

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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. -- (unknown)

Vacilando — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:07:22 +0000

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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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(unknown)

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You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice. -- (unknown)

Vacilando — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:55:32 +0000

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You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

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(unknown)

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Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. -- (unknown)

Vacilando — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:42:06 +0000

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Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

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(unknown)

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Entropy isn't what it used to be. -- (unknown)

Vacilando — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:35:57 +0000

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Entropy isn't what it used to be.

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(unknown)

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A clear conscience is a sign of a fuzzy memory. -- (unknown)

Vacilando — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:00:37 +0000

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A clear conscience is a sign of a fuzzy memory.

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(unknown)

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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism - to steal from many is research. -- (unknown)

Vacilando — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 23:54:22 +0000

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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism - to steal from many is research.

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(unknown)

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We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. -- White, Bryan

Vacilando — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 13:42:20 +0000

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We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

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White, Bryan

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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear brighter - until they speak. -- Wright, Steven

Vacilando — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 15:21:27 +0000

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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear brighter - until they speak.

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Wright, Steven

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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -- Epicurus

Vacilando — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:30:09 +0000

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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

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Epicurus

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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Vacilando — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:01:45 +0000

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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. -- Adams, Douglas Noel

Vacilando — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 15:12:01 +0000

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

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Adams, Douglas Noel

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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. -- Ustinov, Peter

Vacilando — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 14:49:48 +0000

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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

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Ustinov, Peter

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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. -- Wilde, Oscar

Vacilando — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:02:24 +0000

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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

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Wilde, Oscar

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There's good money in empire building. But, there's more in empire wrecking. -- Mitchell, Margaret

Vacilando — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:46:26 +0000

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There's good money in empire building. But, there's more in empire wrecking.

Author

Mitchell, Margaret

Source

Gone With The Wind ( http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200161.txt )

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So hard to accept that the prison door is open and we could walk out if we truly wanted. -- De Botton, Alain

Vacilando — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:44:59 +0000

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So hard to accept that the prison door is open and we could walk out if we truly wanted.

Author

De Botton, Alain

Source

https://twitter.com/#!/alaindebotton/statuses/95568902867791873

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20110725

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Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. -- Hawking, Stephen

Vacilando — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:09:25 +0000

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Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.

Author

Hawking, Stephen

Source

The Grand Design

Date

2010

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The promise of eternal life is a threat unless you get to start over. -- Suarez, Daniel

Vacilando — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:08:56 +0000

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The promise of eternal life is a threat unless you get to start over.

Author

Suarez, Daniel

Source

Daemon

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As long as you don't choose, everything remains possible. -- Mr Nobody (movie)

Vacilando — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:14:33 +0000

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As long as you don't choose, everything remains possible.

Author

Mr Nobody (movie)

Source

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485947/

Date

2009

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I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me. -- Feynman, Richard P.

Vacilando — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:11:45 +0000

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I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me.

Author

Feynman, Richard P.

Source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkhBcLk_8f0&feature=player_embedded#at=156

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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. -- Lincoln, Abraham

Vacilando — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 14:15:35 +0000

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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Author

Lincoln, Abraham

Source

No authentic record exists of Lincoln saying it. It first was attributed to him by Alexander McClure in 1904.

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We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. -- (unknown)

Vacilando — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:51:28 +0000

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We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.

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(unknown)

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The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act. -- (unknown)

Vacilando — Mon, 16 May 2011 11:32:05 +0000

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The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.

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(unknown)

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Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this

Vacilando — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 15:35:26 +0000

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Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That's our problem.

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Zinn, Howard

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. -- Haliburton, Thomas

Vacilando — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 13:45:13 +0000

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

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Haliburton, Thomas

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. -- Shaw, George Bernard

Vacilando — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 15:33:26 +0000

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

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Shaw, George Bernard

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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. -- Wilde, Oscar

Vacilando — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 12:07:19 +0000

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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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Wilde, Oscar

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It is one thing to control starving peasants; it is quite another to govern them once they have food in their bellies. -- Khrushchev, Nikita

Vacilando — Mon, 16 May 2011 11:20:34 +0000

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It is one thing to control starving peasants; it is quite another to govern them once they have food in their bellies.

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Khrushchev, Nikita

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"Ethics" for some is equivalent to "Nice guys finish last." Not great if you wanna be winning. -- Umair Haque

Vacilando — Sun, 08 May 2011 14:03:13 +0000

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"Ethics" for some is equivalent to "Nice guys finish last." Not great if you wanna be winning.

Author

Umair Haque

Source

https://twitter.com/#!/umairh/statuses/62584971570851840

Date

20110425

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The well adjusted don't evolve. -- Flemming Funch

Vacilando — Sun, 08 May 2011 14:05:49 +0000

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The well adjusted don't evolve.

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Flemming Funch

Source

https://twitter.com/#!/ffunch/statuses/63592211417280512

Date

20110428

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We should be ruled not by leaders chosen by a majority, but by those who are most intelligent. -- Plato

Vacilando — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:09:29 +0000

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We should be ruled not by leaders chosen by a majority, but by those who are most intelligent.

Author

Plato

Source

https://twitter.com/#!/alaindebotton/statuses/48682955115204608

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The chief source of problems is solutions. -- Eric Sevareid

Vacilando — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:39:14 +0000

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The chief source of problems is solutions.

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Eric Sevareid

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http://twitter.com/ffunch/statuses/60301498990600192

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Človek je mladý dovtedy, kým dokáže zabehnúť viac kilometrov než koľko má rokov. -- Tomáš J. Fülöpp

Vacilando — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:36:21 +0000

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Človek je mladý dovtedy, kým dokáže zabehnúť viac kilometrov než koľko má rokov.

Author

Tomáš J. Fülöpp

Date

20110417

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You are young as long as you can manage to run more kilometres than what is your age! -- Tomáš J. Fülöpp

Vacilando — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:33:28 +0000

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You are young as long as you can manage to run more kilometres than what is your age!

Author

Tomáš J. Fülöpp

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20110417

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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. -- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Vacilando — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:42:13 +0000

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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

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One can take it as an axiom that one's weirdest, most 'unnatural' thoughts are by definition shared by millions. -- De Botton, Alain

Vacilando — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:20:54 +0000

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One can take it as an axiom that one's weirdest, most 'unnatural' thoughts are by definition shared by millions.

Author

De Botton, Alain

Source

http://twitter.com/#!/alaindebotton/status/36902755637534720

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20110213

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Transparency is a foolish ideal.Life becomes intolerable without a capacity for secrets. -- De Botton, Alain

Vacilando — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:36:40 +0000

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Transparency is a foolish ideal.Life becomes intolerable without a capacity for secrets.

Author

De Botton, Alain

Source

http://twitter.com/#!/alaindebotton/status/17457387522752512

Date

20101222

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In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. -- Rutherford, Ernest

Vacilando — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 15:47:40 +0000

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In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

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Rutherford, Ernest

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In an unpredictable world, the challenge isn't seeing further into the future. It's seeing deeper into now. -- Haque, Umair

Vacilando — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:22:20 +0000

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In an unpredictable world, the challenge isn't seeing further into the future. It's seeing deeper into now.

Author

Haque, Umair

Source

http://twitter.com/umairh/status/19900120525

Date

20100730

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Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened... but do not be silenced. -- Russell, Bertrand

Vacilando — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:21:59 +0000

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Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened... but do not be silenced.

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Russell, Bertrand

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