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Five quotes

A quick meme I found on Rivers are Damp:

Go here and look through random quotes until you find five that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.

Here are my five:

  • Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. (Peter Borden)
  • The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. (May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965)
  • Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. (Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden)
  • It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. (W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915)
  • Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile. (William Raspberry)
By Jason Kottke    Aug 22, 2006 at 10:34 am    lists   memes   quotations

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