Enduring philosophies and favorite quotes

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Playlist pieces

When you fall down just hit the ground running,
and I’ll be running with you…

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you were my compass star… you were my measure… you were a pirate’s map of buried treasure…
if this was all correct, the last thing i’d expect…the prosecution rests.. it’s time that i confess,
i must have loved you.

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Excuse me, are you lost? Perhaps you would care to visit the site map

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”

Washington Irving #link

“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.”

unknown 2Feb02 #link

“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”

Thomas Moore 2Feb02 #link

“living is a thing you do
now or never—which do you?”

Piet Hein 2Feb02 #link

“it’s not a superiority complex. it’s a matter of fact.”

Q 2Feb02 #link

"[I]f an American jumps out of an airplane, you can't sell him a parachute until after he hits the ground.

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Donald Kingsbury #link

“To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.”

John Burroughs 2Feb02 #link

“If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.”

Henry Kissinger #link

if there is something you would die for, then you have something to live for.

You don't know what love is.
This is what love is:
I'm sleeping in the backseat
as Carter drives us

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Paulina Borsook - Love Over the Wires 8Aug01 #link

“Together, we (will, can, must) (rule, change, destroy) the (world, our victims, the people in this bar).”

Robert Ebert 7Jul01 #link

“The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.”

Jorge Luis Borges 13May01 #link

“the unexamined life is not worth living.”

Socrates 2Feb01 #link

“to thine own self be true.”

shakespeare #link
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