Kevin Stilley

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Marcus Porcius Cato – Select Quotes

Marcus Porcius CatoSuffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

Emas, non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est: quod non opus est, asse carum est. [Buy not what you can use, but what you cannot do without. What you do not need is dear at any price.]
~ quoted by Seneca in Epistulae, xciv, 28

Fures privatorum in nervo atque in compedibus aetatem agunt; Fures publici in auro atque in purpura. [Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains; those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.”
~ in Praeda militibus dividenda

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Intelligent Design – Select Quotes

Intelligent Design

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Just as in the everyday world, where we immediately conclude design when we see a complex, interactive system such as a mousetrap, there is no reason to withhold the same conclusion from interactive molecular systems. This conclusion may have theological implications that make some people uncomfortable; nonetheless, it is the job of science to follow the data wherever they lead, no matter how disturbing.
~ Michael Behe, in The Sterility of Darwinism

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Henry Fielding – Select Quotes

Henry Fielding A man may go to Heaven with half the pains which it costs him to purchase Hell.
~ in Jonathan Wild

There are a set of religions, or rather moral writings, which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
~ in Tom Jones

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Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield – Quotes

Philip Dormer StanhopeThere is a Connection between Licentiousness and Liberty, that it is not easy to correct the one, without dangerously wounding the other.

History is only a confused heap of facts.

A light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; they will both fall into the ditch.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.

Women are much more like each other than men; they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Women, especially, are to be talked to, as below men, and above children.

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Change – select quotes

Mule and plowTo exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
~ Henri Bergson

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly understood.
~ G. K. Chesterton

It is only the wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.
~ Confucius, in Analects

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
~ Peter Drucker

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
~ Anatole France

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
~ Andre Gide

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.
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Arthur Schopenhauer – select quotes

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.

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Khalil Gibran – Select Quotes

Khalil GibranThe obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man’s proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.

He brings disaster upon his nation who never sows a seed, or lays a brick, or weaves a garment, but makes politics his occupation.

The partition between the sage and the fool is more slender than the spider web.

Among the people there are killers who have not yet shed blood, and thieves who have stolen nothing, and liars who have so far told the truth.

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God. [Read more…]

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