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quotes

Well Quoted – XV

April 18, 2007

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. –Aristotle It is a rash man who reaches a conclusion before he gets to it. –Jacob Levin, Reader’s Digest, Apr 1997 Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. –Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes Only as high as I [...]

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Excerpts from Seinfeld

April 11, 2007

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. There is no such thing as “fun for the whole family.” Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing [...]

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Well Quoted – XIV

April 8, 2007

Life is at its best when it’s shaken and stirred. –Reader’s Digest, Jan 96 Build me my ghats, the river, the life as I know it, in the backyard and may be I will stay back –Ustad Bismillah Khan, turning down an offer of an American connoisseur to stay in the US The unexamined life [...]

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Well Quoted – XIII

March 22, 2007

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. – Edsger Wybe Dijkstra [1930 - 2002] He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. – Martin Luther King First, they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then [...]

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Well Quoted – XII

March 11, 2007

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by frost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien “Lord of the Rings” Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money. – Neil Simon [...]

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Well Quoted – XI

March 1, 2007

Beware! All expansion is life, all contraction is death. All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. –Swami Vivekananda “You know the world’s gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America’s Cup, France [...]

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Well Quoted – X

February 18, 2007

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war. – Winston Churchill Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers. – Daniel Boorstin Success is 1% inspiration and 99% ‘preparation’. – Shruti Srivastava Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. – Neils Bohr Success is having options. – unknown [...]

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Well Quoted – IX

February 4, 2007

It is never too late to become what you might have been. – George Eliot. Our greatest glory is not in never failing but rising every time we fall. – Confucius If you think your actions are too small to make a difference, you’ve never been in a bed with a mosquito. – Unknown Dig [...]

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Well Quoted – VIII

January 8, 2007

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it, if you can dream it, you can become it. There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in [...]

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Well Quoted – VII

December 26, 2006

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry. A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with $10 million are no happier than people with $9 million. Experience is [...]

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