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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet, 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655:: American poet (1612 - 1672)
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
- Arnold Bennett
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. - Alfred Lord Tennyson:: English poet (1809 - 1892)
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
- Robert Graves:: British author & classical scholar (1895 - 1985)
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. - Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629-1689:: Swedish queen 1632-1654 (1626 - 1689)
"Before we cremate them, I want to find out who is right and who is wrong, who is a victim and who is a killer. What I need to know first is, who were the killers." - SIM SAC, a Cambodian farmer, on victims of the Khmer Rouge.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
- Confucius, The Confucian Analects:: Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)
"I don't want to get up in public and say the sky is falling if it's not falling. I'm going to try to be very realistic and sensible and serious about the kinds of tradeoffs that we have to consider when we're making decisions about protecting ourselves." - MICHAEL CHERTOFF, homeland security secretary.
"Those Lebanese who want the Syrians to stay can go live in Syria. There are plenty of Lebanese here to fill the country." - NOHA DAHIR, 18, who participated in a demonstration with hundreds of thousands of others yesterday in Beirut.
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…? - Friedrich Nietzsche
"There used to be rivers of butterflies, but now there are years when there are no butterflies at all. This is a village full of ghosts, not of people, but of nature, a paradise lost." - HOMERO ARIDJIS, a naturalist in Contepec, Mexico.
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:: German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)
"We're here to defend our liberty and our true sovereignty, the sovereignty of the resistance. The opposition wants to open the door to the Americans and to foreign intervention. We will stop them." - AHMAD MOUSSA, a student, at a Hezbollah rally supporting the Syrian presence in Lebanon.
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
- Samuel McChord Crothers
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762:: French political philosopher (1712 - 1778)
"Through history, some of our best ambassadors have been those with the strongest voices, ambassadors like Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Daniel Patrick Moynihan." - CONDOLEEZZA RICE, on the nomination of John R. Bolton as the United States ambassador to the United Nations.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
- Daniel H. Burnham:: US architect & city planner (1846 - 1912)
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
- Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994)
"Everything happening is taking place in one context, the bankruptcy of the authoritarian regimes and their rejection by the Arab peoples. Democracy is being born and the current authoritarianism is dying." - MICHEL KILO, a political activist in Damascus, Syria.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer:: US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 - 1991)
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. - Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers:: Greek philosopher (341 BC - 270 BC)
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa:: Indian humanitarian & missionary (1910 - 1997)
