[philosopher]

Magdalena Abakanowicz:
Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

[MaKaVeLi]

George Burns:
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

[philosopher]

Anna Garlin Spencer:
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.

Woman's Share in Social Culture, 1912

[philosopher]

Barbara Ehrenreich:
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."

[MaKaVeLi]

George Santayana:
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

[jornT]

JornT:
Pain hates me :(

[MaKaVeLi]

Groucho Marx:
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

[philosopher]

Emily Dickinson:
What is—"Paradise"—
Who live there—
Are they "Farmers"—
Do they "hoe"—
Do they know that this is "Amherst"—
And that I—am coming—too—

[philosopher]

Helen Keller:
I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

[MaKaVeLi]

Helen Keller:
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

[robcardu]

ok only one ...


STOP MY ASS IS ON FIRE:


Nicole Sheridan.



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[MaKaVeLi]

Henry David Thoreau:
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

[MaKaVeLi]

Henry David Thoreau:
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.