| "I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy" »Louise Bogan |
| "The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. in response to George W. Bush's assertion of Iran as part of an axis of evil" »Ayatullah Khamenei |
| "A clever man commits no minor blunders." »Johann von Goethe |
| "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles." »Mignon McLaughlin |
| "Who would've thought such a slight tilt in our earthly axis could make such a big difference in our lives The big wheel keeps on turning and here we are again, looking in the sweet face of darkness." »Geoffrey Neighor |
| "Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn |
| "Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." »Stephen Hawking |
| "Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives." »Marilyn Ferguson |
| "Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures." »Vince Lombardi |
| "A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
| "For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business." »D. W. Brogan |
| "When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature." »Sigmund Freud |
| "minor surgery is surgery someone else is having." »J. Carl Cook |
| "Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question." »Aleister Crowley |
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