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Deep Thoughts

A category for stories on the random quotes displayed in the Deep Thoughts Section of the sidebar.

Culture Deep Thoughts 

Never Haste to Day’s End

June 2, 2006April 29, 2018 B. John 1186 Views

One must never be in haste to end a day. There are too few of them in a lifetime. –Dale Coleman

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Deep Thoughts Culture 

The Journey Matters

June 1, 2006April 29, 2018 B. John 1253 Views Author, Goals, Journeys, Science Fiction, Ursual K LeGuin

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. –Ursula K. LeGuin

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Culture Deep Thoughts Science 

We Must Sail

May 31, 2006April 29, 2018 B. John 1363 Views Harbors, Journey, Oliver Wendall Holmes, Ports, Sailing

I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving; To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it–but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. –Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Culture Deep Thoughts Science General 

Discovering The Limits of the Possible.

May 30, 2006April 29, 2018 B. John 1303 Views Arthur C Clarke, Discovery, Limits

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. –Arthur C. Clarke

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Culture Deep Thoughts Science Society Technology 

Respecting Nature

May 29, 2006April 29, 2018 B. John 1234 Views E.B. White, Nature, Respect

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. –E.B. White

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Deep Thoughts Society 

Basic Decency and Goodness

May 28, 2006April 29, 2018 B. John 1165 Views Music, Cello, Decency, Goodness, Pablo Casals

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. –Pablo Casals

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Religion Society Deep Thoughts 

A Drop In the Ocean

May 27, 2006April 29, 2018 B. John 1296 Views Accomplishments, Mother Teresa

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed. –Mother Teresa

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General Deep Thoughts 

The Price of Success

May 26, 2006April 29, 2018 B. John 1203 Views Success, Failure

The price of success is perseverance. The price of failure comes cheaper. –Anonymous

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Culture Deep Thoughts 

The Immortal Flow of Energy

May 9, 2006April 29, 2018 B. John 1215 Views love, Smiley Blanton

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. –Smiley Blanton

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Deep Thoughts Politics Society 

Power Is An End

May 7, 2006April 29, 2018 B. John 1323 Views 1984, Orwell, Persecution, torture, Power

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. –Orwell, 1984

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Imagination and Knowledge

May 6, 2006August 10, 2015 1424 Views Albert Einstein, evolution, imagination, knowledge, progress

Along with some of the great theories of how our universe works, Einstein is also know for some great insights into human nature. It seems, despite a depth of knowledge exceeding almost everyone else in human history, yet he is saying that knowledge has a limit. We can only know so much.

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