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memorable assets irrational
Alan Greenspan How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
memorable vacation vacation-time
David Brenner It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.
memorable men eulogy
William Shakespeare His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
memorable autumn march
William Shakespeare Beware the ides of March.
memorable trying deeds
William Shakespeare The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
memorable thinking world
William Shakespeare He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
memorable player government
Kurt Vonnegut Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.
memorable men laughing
Kurt Vonnegut It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.
thinking vanity
Charles Caleb Colton None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens "As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking people noses
Charles Dickens I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
thinking diversity different
Charles Dickens Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
thinking america impossible
Charles Dickens I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
thinking pieces ships
Charles Dickens and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
thinking light law
Charles Dickens The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
thinking advice
Charles Stewart Parnell Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
world would-be birth
Alan Watts Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
world marvelous
Alan Watts The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.
world meaningless
Alan Watts Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
world going-through-changes stills
Alan Price Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.
world save-the-world please
Alan Moore Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...
world clock made
Alan Moore Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.
world advantage knows
Alan Moore One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
world september
Alan Jackson Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
world
Alan Bean I have the nicest life in the world.