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Comment on: Re: What is your favorite quote?

Bigthink — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:28:38 +0100

"If a man doesn't keep pace with his companions perhaps he marches to the beat of a different drummer; let him march to the beat he hears, no matter how measure or far away." Thoreu

Comment on: Re: What is your favorite quote?

Bigthink — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:59:31 +0100

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow

Comment on: Re: What is your favorite quote?

Bigthink — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:29:23 +0100

joy and woe are woven fine A clothing for the soul divine-william blake

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until, in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God
-Aeschylus

Comment on: Re: What is your favorite quote?

Bigthink — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:17:42 +0100

Completly agree with you I AM, i cant stand reading most early americal literature but Twain is quite good. Also Twain was taught even in the soviet union.

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Bigthink — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:24:37 +0100

Twain was among the few good American authors before science fiction became popular :).

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Bigthink — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:00:24 +0100

Twain always said "Write what you know."

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Bigthink — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:59:57 +0100

I love the Twain quote.

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Bigthink — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:49:03 +0100

"It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp." - James Ramsey Ullman