God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler (19th Century Novelist, author of Erewhon.) | |
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one
hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
E B White (US Author and Humorist, better known for Stuart Little) |
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
and toss them on the wheels of Chance.
Juvenal |
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| The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. - John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| How can you help me if you don't believe me? - Cole Sear [Haley Joel Osment] The Sixth Sense |
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In
order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are
needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And
they must have a sense of success in it.
- (John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)) |
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- (George Orwell) |
- We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- - (Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965))
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| "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - ( Prof. Richard Feynman ) |
| "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The
Eagle has Landed." - ( Neil Armstrong ) |
| "For
believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest
fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously." - ( Friedrich
Nietzsche ) |
| "I'm frequently appalled by the low
regard you Earthmen have for life." - ( Spock, Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3
[Star Trek - TOS]) |
| "You're too sharp. That's your trouble.
You're like a drawn sword. Sharp,
naked without a sheath. You cut well. But good swords are kept in
their sheathes." - ( "Sanjuro", Akira Kurosawa
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"Never let the future
disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to,
with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the
present."
(
Marcus Aurelius Antonius, Caesar Imperator [161 - 180 CE] )
PS: He is the elder Emperor who is portrayed in the movie Gladiator. |
rex sedet in vertice
caveat ruinam!
nam sub axe legimus
Hecubam reginam.
( from: "Carmina
Burana, 2. Fortuna Plango Vulnera", Carl
Orff ) |
sits
the king at the summit -
let
him fear ruin!
for
under the axis is written
Queen
Hecuba.
[popular
title: "Oh Fortuna!"]
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"One thing is
certain, the
rest is lies."
"One thing is certain,
time flies."
( oft-quoted by my English Professor,
K.G.Seshadhri ) |
| "If at first, the idea
is not absurd,
then there is no hope for it..."
- ( Albert Einstein ) |
| "And the wall
went down just as the
windows went up ..." - (
Amartya Sen ) |
| "The Kingdom of
your brother was
here," indicating
the heart, "and here,"
indicating
the mind. "That
Kingdom can never be surrendered."
- ('Balian of Ibelin' [Orlando Bloom], "The Kingdom of
Heaven", William
Monahon) |
| "I think a man
does what he can,
until his destiny is revealed to him."
- ('Capt. Nathan Algren' [Tom Cruise], "The Last
Samurai") |
| "Never let them see you
bleed. Always
have an escape route." - (
'Q'
[Desmond Llewlyn], "James Bond - The World is Not Enough" ) |
"First Things First."
- ( 'James Bond' [Pierce Brosnan], "James
Bond - The
World is Not Enough" ) [referral to Stephen Covey's Book of the same
name.]
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| "Those whom the Gods
love, die young."
- Virgil (Aenid) |
| "Fortune favors the
Bold."
- Virgil (Aenid) |
| "Never Hesitate."
- ( 'Olympias' [Angelina Jolie],
"Alexander-2004", Oliver Stone ) |
| "Snakes, They are
like men, you can
feed them, nurture them and live
with them, but they can turn on you anytime." -
( 'Olympias' [Angelina Jolie], "Alexander-2004", Oliver
Stone ) |
| "All man's miseries
derive from not
being able to sit in a room
alone." - Blaise Pascal (
src: ravi[AT]codito[DOT]com's e-mail
signature ) |
| "... Fear leads
to anger. Anger leads
to hate. Hate leads to
suffering." - ( 'Yoda',
"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace",
George Lucas ) |
| "The
secrets of this earth are not
for
all men to see, but only for
those who will seek them." -
( Anthem, Ayn Rand ) |
| "Someone has to die
Leonard, in order
that the rest of us should value
life more."
- ( 'Virginia Woolf' [Nicole Kidman], "The Hours", Michael Cunningham )
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| "Forgiveness is
between them and God,
it is my job to arrange the
meeting."
- ( 'Creasey' [Denzel Washington], "Man on Fire", Tony Scott )
( attributed to General
Norman Schwarzkopf [of
'Operation
Desert Storm'
fame] ) |
| "No Greater Friend. No
Greater Enemy."
- ( Lucius Cornelius Sulla's tombstone, "Caesar's Women", Colleen
McCullough ) |
| "Time is what stops
everything from
happening at once!" - John
Archibald Wheeler (better known as Feynman's professor ) |
| "You have to let it all
go, Neo.
Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your
mind." - ( 'Morpheus'
[Laurence Fishburne], "The Matrix", Andy
& Larry Wachowski ) |
| "The East has
a way of swallowing its enemies!"
- ( Aristotle,
"Alexander [2004]", Oliver Stone ) |
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