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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 1201 Views
This entry is in the series Deep Thoughts

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 1268 Views Author, Goals, Journeys, Science Fiction, Ursual K LeGuin
This entry is in the series Deep Thoughts

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 1386 Views Harbors, Journey, Oliver Wendall Holmes, Ports, Sailing
This entry is in the series Deep Thoughts

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 1345 Views Arthur C Clarke, Discovery, Limits
This entry is in the series Deep Thoughts

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 1250 Views E.B. White, Nature, Respect
This entry is in the series Deep Thoughts

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 1180 Views Music, Cello, Decency, Goodness, Pablo Casals
This entry is in the series Deep Thoughts

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 1307 Views Accomplishments, Mother Teresa
This entry is in the series Deep Thoughts

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 1217 Views Success, Failure
This entry is in the series Deep Thoughts

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 1230 Views love, Smiley Blanton
This entry is in the series Deep Thoughts

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 1340 Views 1984, Orwell, Persecution, torture, Power
This entry is in the series Deep Thoughts

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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Deep Thoughts Science 

Imagination and Knowledge

May 6, 2006August 10, 2015 1450 Views Albert Einstein, evolution, imagination, knowledge, progress
This entry is in the series Deep Thoughts

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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