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Quotes, aphorisms, etc. Nov 10, 2018 8:58:51 GMT

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Post by Cynicus Rex on Nov 10, 2018 8:58:51 GMT

Copied some of my saved quotes, just to get things started.

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment." —Carl Friedrich Gauss"

"It's much easier to believe something than it is to understand it." —Chris Hadfield

"Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." —G.M. Trevelyan

"He not busy being born is busy dying." —Bob Dylan

“Lost time is never found again.” —Benjamin Franklin

"Study to be accomplished, not affluent.” —'Rancho' Shamaldas Chanchad

"So long as you retain your spirit of exploration, surely you shall find your way out. This I believe." —Dokutsu Monogatari

Homer Simpson: "There's your giraffe, little girl."
Ralph Wiggum: "I'm a boy."
Homer: "That's the spirit. Never give up."

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Quotes, aphorisms, etc. Mar 24, 2019 22:01:38 GMT Cynicus Rex likes this

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Post by burhan on Mar 24, 2019 22:01:38 GMT

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca ”

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone - Blaise Pascal”

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Cynicus Rex Administrator Posts: 296	Quotes, aphorisms, etc. May 9, 2019 20:05:03 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cynicus Rex on May 9, 2019 20:05:03 GMT “Amateurs practice until they get it right; professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong.” —Unknown
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Quotes, aphorisms, etc. Jun 24, 2019 5:53:32 GMT burhan likes this

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From the Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk podcast with Jack Black.

“I like to tell my kids: 'Don't think about what you want to be when you grow up.' I think that's a false thing we put on our kids. Think about what you want to do when you grow up. If you're trying to be something, that suggests ego; and like, I want the title. What do you really love to spend your time doing?” —Jack Black

I think I've been asking the wrong question.

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Quotes, aphorisms, etc. Jun 24, 2019 20:14:22 GMT

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Post by burhan on Jun 24, 2019 20:14:22 GMT

“...throughout the city, artists sharpen pencils and dip brushes and tune guitars. Others (mathematicians), with their theorems and equations revel just as much in the world’s possibilities. / The world needs artists. Into words and pictures, notes and numbers each transforms their portion of the night. A mathematician at his desk glimpses something hitherto invisible. He is about to turn darkness into light.”

- Daniel Tammet, Thinking in Numbers

Cynicus Rex Administrator Posts: 296	Quotes, aphorisms, etc. Apr 10, 2020 9:34:59 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cynicus Rex on Apr 10, 2020 9:34:59 GMT "Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris." "Remember, man, that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return."
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