The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
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Archive for February, 2008
Achievement Quotes
February 29, 2008Famous Quotes
February 29, 2008Familiarity breeds contempt – and children – Mark Twain
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Absurdity Quotes
February 29, 2008The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quotes and Sayings
Famous Quotes
February 29, 2008Civilisation is the progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneityFamous Quotes – Herbert Spencer
Inspirational SpeakersChristmas Quotes
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February 28, 2008Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itselfFamous Quotes – Montaigne
Good Clean Jokes
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February 28, 2008There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked aboutFamous Quotes – Oscar Wilde
Sports
Science Quotes and Scientist Quotes
February 27, 2008Science Quotes
Quotes About Science
The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.
– F. Dessauer
Famous SayingsPhoenix Jobs
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February 27, 2008There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is to throw them awayFamous Quotes – Chatfield
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Absurdity Quotes
February 27, 2008It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
– Anne Frank (German Jewish girl Author of a diary of her family’s two years [...]
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February 27, 2008Intelligence is to talent what blood is to our body : it nourishes it,Famous Quotes – Unknown
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