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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. -Henrik Ibsen, playwright (1828-1906) The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements. -I Ching (B.C. 1150?) In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. -Ivan Illich, priest (1926-2002) Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. -William R. Inge, clergyman, scholar, and author (1860-1954) We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. -William R. Inge, clergyman, scholar, and author (1860-1954) In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899) In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899) The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899 Courage without conscience is a wild beast. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899) In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous. -Robert G. Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899) Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.- Washington Irving -(1783-1859, American Author) Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. -Washington Irving, writer (1783-1859) Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. -Jesse Louis Jackson Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive. Jesse Jackson (1941-, American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader) We must turn to each other and not on each other - Jesse Jackson Your children need your presence more than your presents. -Jesse Jackson, clergyman and civil rights leader (1941- ) A language is never in a state of fixation, but is always changing; we are not looking at a lantern-slide but at a moving picture. -Andrew Lloyd James, linguist The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves. -P.D. James What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. -P.D. James, writer (1920- ) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -William James Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel
most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which
says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude,
follow it. -William James We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing. - William James, American psychologist When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. -William James, psychologist (1842-1910) To kill time is not murder, it's suicide. -William James, psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910) Thomas Jefferson April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826 The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an
awful hurry. -John Jensen Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a
harvest. -Douglas William Jerrold, playwright and humorist (1803-1857) Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784) If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic. -Barry Jones, politician, author (1932- ) One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. -James Earl Jones, actor (1931- ) Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even. -Franklin P. Jones Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. -Franklin P. Jones Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. -Franklin P. Jones, businessman (1887-1929) You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: No one to blame. -Erica Jong, writer (1942- ) It does not require many words to speak the truth. -Chief Joseph, native American leader (1840-1904) Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941) Never cut what you can untie. -Joubert (1754-1824) To teach is to learn twice. -Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824) The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. -Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824) Words, like eyeglasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. -Joseph Joubert, moralist and essayist (1754-1824) When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824) He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824) The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824) Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824) Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. -Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist (1875-1961) Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. - Juvenal, poet (c. 60-140) This is his first punishment,
that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. -Juvenal, poet
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