Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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Religion is a candle inside a multi-colored lantern.
Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. -- Modammed Neguib...
Few maxims are true from every point of view. -- Vauvenargue
Even Plato didn't care for the flickering images of reality projected on the cave walls.
-- Jason Vigdior, _Jest_, 1996...
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die. -- Vauvenargues (1715-1747)
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
-- Paul Valery...
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
-- Whitney Young, Jr....
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
-- The wisdom of the Taoi...
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas.
Rather, it wi...
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets.
I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge...
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986...

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