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"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?" -- Douglas Noel Adams (b. 1952), British author, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" More about the author |
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"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea." -- Douglas Noel Adams (b. 1952), British author, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" More about the author |
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"Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason." -- Douglas Noel Adams (b. 1952), British author, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" More about the author |
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"Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement." -- George Burton Adams (1851-1925), American educator, historian More about the author |
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"If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness." -- Jay Edward Adams (b. 1929), American-born author, writer More about the author |
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"You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose." -- William Adams More about the author |
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"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life." -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist, poet, statesman More about the author |
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist, poet, statesman More about the author |
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you." -- Mortimer Adler (b. 1902), American philosopher, educator, "How to Read a Book" More about the author |
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"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public." -- Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-69), German philosopher and sociologist More about the author |
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