Sunday, August 03, 2008

Eight great quotes or proverbs

1.Speak of the devil and he appears.-Italian proverb
2.The more the data banks record about each one of us,the less we exist.-Marshall McLuhan in Playboy,1969.
3.If you want others to be happy,practise compassion.If you want to be happy,practise compassion.-Dalai Lama
4.The writer studies literature,not the world---He is careful of what he reads ,for that is what he will write.-Annie Dillard
5.Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.-Jim Backus
6.I think the battle that one always has is the battle between inspiration and form.-Deena Metzger
7.The past is a source of knowledge,and the future is a source of hope.Love of the past implies faith in the future.-Stephen Ambrose in FAST COMPANY
8.Formerly no one was allowed to think freely;now it is permitted ,but noone is capable of it anymore.Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think,and this they consider freedom.-Oswald Spengler in THE DECLINE OF THE WEST(1918)

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