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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neo" data-source="post: 379527" data-attributes="member: 4139">I think the Kurgan ( in Highlander) put it best"It's better to burn out than to Fade Away"Or indeed the Pg Man from Mad Max 3 Beyond the thunderdome, who said"No Matter where you go, there you are".Or Froyd"Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar" referring to the fact that some things are just what they appear to be, for all our analyses and desire that they were otherwise.Lewis Carroll"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves"(Chapter.9 Alice in Wonderland)Constantine Cavafy"What shall become of us without any barbarians?  those people were a kind of solution".Earl of Chesterfield"Take the tone of the company that you are in"(letter to his son)Cicero"Salus populi suprema est lex" (means The good of the people is the chief law)Pope Clement XIII"Sint ut sunt aut non sint"(means Let them be as they are or nto be at all)R.G. Collingwood"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do".(Speculum Mentis, Prologue)Charles Caleb Colton"When you have nothing to say, say nothing"(Lacon)William Cowper"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour"(The Timepiece)Emily dickenson"success is counted sweetestBy those who ne'er succeed.To comprehend a nectarRequires sorest need".(from Success is counted Sweetest)MME DU DEFFAND"La Distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coute".(Means The Distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult)Thomas Alva Edison"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration"(From Life ch.24)T.S Eliot" Teach us to care and not to careTeach us to sit still"."HumankindCannot bear very much reality""What we call the beginning is often the endAnd to make an end is to make a beginning.The end is where we start from""We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time""The last temptation is the greatest treasonTo do the right deed for the wrong reason"Joh Fletcher"Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble:Great actions speak great minds, and sch should govern"(the Prophetess)W.E. Gladstone"You cannot fight against the future.  Time is on our side"Hippocrates"The life so short, the craft so long to learn"(from Aphorisms)John Keats"A thing of beauty is a joy forever;Its loveliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness".(Endymion)Karl Marx"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it".(Theses on Feuerbach)John Stuart Mill"The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it".(Dissertations and Discussions)Percy Bysshe Shelley"Teach me half the gladnessthat thy brain must know,Such harmonious madnessFrom my lips would flow,The world should listen then - as I am listening now".(To a Skylark)</blockquote>

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