Dr Wingnut

Category: Quotations

  • Half empty or Half full?

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    A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.Harry S. Truman

  • Detachment

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    We do not have to get caught in the middle of other people’s issues.Melody Beattie

  • Progress

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    If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld Magazine

  • Fear

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    It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.Seneca

  • Proust

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    Proust describes rounding a bend in the road: he sees a stand of trees he’s seen before, but whether he first saw them in a dream or in the distant real past, he can’t say.  "I watched the trees gradually recede, waving their despairing arms, seeming to say to me: ‘What you fail to learn…

  • Crocodiles love dogs

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    A dog barks nearby.  "Crocodiles love dogs," [Mark] Read [Biologist, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service] tells me.  "To crocs their barking is like the jingle of an ice-cream truck to a child."Smithsonian, page 92, November 2001

  • Blurb of the Week

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    Soon-to-be-author Paris Hilton, quoted in the Las Vegas Sun, on being introduced to Jackie Collins: "If I could read a book, I’d definitely read one of yours."via email from John Treworgy, Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:39:26 -0500