Words of Wisdom
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"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln (born on this date in 1809)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei (born on this date in 1564)
"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." - Galileo Galilei (born on this date in 1564)
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison (born on this date in 1847)
"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them." - Boris Pasternak (born on this date in 1890)
"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you." - Brendan Behan (born on this date in 1923)
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."- James Dean
"An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man."- Sir Thomas More (born on this date in 1478)
"Accursed be he that first invented war." - Christopher Marlowe (born on this date in 1564)
"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."- Adlai Stevenson (born on this date in 1900)
"I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up."- Rosa Parks (born on this date in 1913)
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."- Gertrude Stein (born on this date in 1874)
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."- James Joyce
"I will not take 'but' for an answer."- Langston Hughes (born on this date in 1902)
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."- Jackie Robinson (born on this date in 1919)
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."- Franklin D. Roosevelt (born on this date in 1882)
“The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.” ― Emanuel Swedenborg (born on this date in 1688)
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (born on this date in 1873)
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."- Lewis Carroll (born on this date in 1832)
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency."- General Douglas MacArthur (born on this date in 1880)
"I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."- Virginia Woolf (born on this date in 1882)
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."- Edith Wharton
"The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being." - Sergei Eisenstein (born on this date in 1898)
"The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener."- George Balanchine (born on this date in 1904)
"What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?"- Paul Allen (born on this date in 1953)
"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life."- Federico Fellini (born on this date in 1920)
"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves."- Daniel Webster (born on this date in 1782)
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." - Muhammad Ali (born on this date in 1942)
"The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes." - Susan Sontag (born on this date in 1933)