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    Walter Raleigh
    “O eloquent, just and mighty Death! Whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words; Hic Jacet! (Here lies)”
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    tags: death, life

  • #2
    Francis Bacon
    “It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and see the ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.”
    Francis Bacon, The Essays

  • #3
    Greg Gutfeld
    “The only candidate I'd allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we're talking about foraging for squirrels, he's notoriously apolitical.”
    Greg Gutfeld, Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You

  • #4
    Anaïs Nin
    “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
    Anais Nin

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

  • #6
    Jules Verne
    “We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
    Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    tags: law

  • #7
    J.M. Coetzee
    “The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.”
    J.M. Coetzee

  • #8
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #9
    Norton Juster
    “So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
    Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

  • #10
    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    Henry Ford

  • #11
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #12
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #13
    Brian Grazer
    “WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.”
    Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life



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