Archive for December, 2008

Thomas Carlyle on Solitude

“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”  

 - Thomas Carlyle

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Walter Benjamin on Relationships

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.” 

 - Walter Benjamin

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Freeman Dyson on Cause

“A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.”  

 - Freeman Dyson

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Mahatma Gandhi on Unity

“Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.” 

 - Mahatma Gandhi

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Hoshang N. Akhtar on Marriage

“Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.” 

 - Hoshang N. Akhtar

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Thomas A. Edison on Solitude

“The best thinking has been done in solitude.” 

 - Thomas A. Edison

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Henri Frederic Amiel on Relationships

“We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.” 

 - Henri Frederic Amiel

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Malcolm De Chazal on Laughter

“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.” 

 - Malcolm De Chazal

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Joan Baez on Relationships

“The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.” 

- Joan Baez

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Barbara De Angelis on Marriage

“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.”  

 - Barbara De Angelis  

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