Thứ Hai, 13 tháng 4, 2015

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Inspirational Quotes 2


  • He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty. ― Lao Tzu
  • Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway, so think BIG! ― Donald Trump
  • People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success. ― Norman Vincent Peale
  • The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. ― Wayne Gretzky
  • Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward. ― Thomas A. Edison
  • Do not settle for less than an extraordinary life. ― Anon.
  • I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the more luck I have. ― Thomas Jefferson
  • You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. ― George Horace Lorimer
  • If you have goals and procrastination you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.― Thomas J. Vilord
  • Remember, if you want a different result, do something different. ―  Anon.
  • Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If you can't find them, then make them. ― George Bernard Shaw
  • Imagination is more important than knowledge. ― Albert Einstein
  • Every man is an impossibility until he is born. ―  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The greater the obstacle, the more glory in achieving it. ― Moliere
  • People are not lazy; they just have impotent goals, that is, goals that do not inspire them. ― Anthony Robbins

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Inspirational Quotes 1

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Inspiration (from the Latin inspirare, meaning "To breathe into") refers to an unconscious burst
of creativity in a literary, musical, or other artistic endeavour. The concept has origins in both Hellenism and Hebraism. The Greeks believed that inspiration came from the muses, as well as the gods Apollo and Dionysus. Similarly, in the Ancient Norse religions, inspiration derives from the gods, such as Odin. Inspiration is also a divine matter in Hebrew poetics. In the Book of Amos the prophet speaks of being overwhelmed by God's voice and compelled to speak. In Christianity, inspiration is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

In the 18th century philosopher John Locke proposed a model of the human mind in which ideas associate or resonate with one another in the mind. In the 19th century, Romantic poets such as Coleridge and Shelley believed that inspiration came to a poet because the poet was attuned to the (divine or mystical) "winds" and because the soul of the poet was able to receive such visions. In the early 20th century, Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud located inspiration in the inner psyche of the artist. Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung's theory of inspiration suggests that an artist is one who was attuned to racial memory, which encoded the archetypes of the human mind.

The Marxist theory of art sees it as the expression of the friction between economic base and economicsuperstructural positions, or as an unaware dialog of competing ideologies, or as an exploitation of a "fissure" in the ruling class's ideology. In modern psychology inspiration is not frequently studied, but it is generally seen as an entirely internal process.

  • Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ― Albert Einstein
  • If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ― John Quincy Adams
  • Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ― Confucius
  • The unhappiest & unsuccessful people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think. ― C. JoyBell
  • The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.  ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. ― Abraham Linclon
  • Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived stop thinking and go in. ― Napoleon Bonaparte
  • You just can´t beat the person who never gives up. ― Babe Ruth
  • The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. ―  Winston Churchill
  • To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will. ― Sugar Ray Robinson
  • I have failed over and over again –that is why I succeed. ― Michael Jordan
  • The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. ― Arthur C. Clarke
  • Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. ― Albert Einstein
  • Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. ― Anon.
  • People become successful the minute they decide to. ― Harvey Mackay
  • Your ideas are like diamonds.. .without the refining process, they are just a dirty rock, but by cutting away the impurities, they become priceless. ― Paul Kearly
  • I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success. ― Albert Einstein
  • The size of your success depends on the depth of your desire. ― Anon.
  • He who dares, wins. ― Winston Churchill
  • The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another. ― Alexander Graham Bell
  • You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.  ― Beverly Sills
  • I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed. ― Michael Jordan
  • The starting Doint of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind.Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. ― Napoleon Hill
  • Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding. ― Jimmy Valvano
  • Don't wish for it...Work for it! ― Anon. 

Chủ Nhật, 12 tháng 4, 2015

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Quotes On Humanity

Humanity Or Human nature refers to the distinguishing characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling and acting, that humans tend to have naturally, i.e. independently of the influence of culture. The questions of what these characteristics are, what causes them, and how fixed human nature is, are amongst the oldest and most important questions in western philosophy. These questions have particularly important implications in ethics, politics, and theology. This is partly because human nature can be regarded as both a source of norms of conduct or ways of life, as well as presenting obstacles or constraints on living a good life. The complex implications of such questions are also dealt with in art and literature, while the multiple branches of the Humanities together form an important domain of inquiry into human nature, and the question of what it means to be human.

The branches of contemporary science associated with the study of human nature include anthropology, sociology, sociobiology, and psychology, particularly evolutionary psychology, and developmental psychology. The "nature versus nurture" debate is a broadly inclusive and well-known instance of a discussion about human nature in the natural sciences.

The existence of this invariable human nature is, however, a subject of much historical debate, continuing into modern times. Against this idea of a fixed human nature, the relative malleability of man has been argued especially strongly in recent centuries—firstly by early modernists such as Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the latter of whom stated:

“We do not know what our nature permits us to be. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile”

Since the mid-19th century, thinkers such as Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, structuralists and postmodernists have also sometimes argued against a fixed or innate human nature. Still more recent scientific perspectives such as behaviorism, determinism, and the chemical model within modern psychiatry and psychology, claim to be neutral regarding human nature. (As in all modern science they seek to explain without recourse to metaphysical causation.) They can be offered to explain its origins and underlying mechanisms, or to demonstrate capacities for change and diversity which would arguably violate the concept of a fixed human nature.

  • You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. ― Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  • Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ― Ralph Ellison
  • If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ― Mother Teresa
  • A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. ― Gloria Steinem
  • I love Humanity but I hate humans ― Albert Einstein
  • I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves. ― Tess Gerritsen
  • I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world. ― Eugene Victor Debs
  • Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. ― Orson Scott Card
  • The next evolutionary step for humankind is to move from human to kind. ― Anon.
  • Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. ― Anon.
  • Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff. — Sojourner Truth
  • There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ― Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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Quotes On Humor

Gags die, humor doesn’t.
Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.
The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humors (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), control human health and emotion.

People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. The majority of people are able to experience humour, i.e., to be
amused, to laugh or smile at something funny, and thus they are considered to have a sense of humour. The hypothetical person lacking a sense of humour would likely find the behaviour induced by humour to be inexplicable, strange, or even irrational. Though ultimately decided by personal taste, the extent to which a person will find something humorous depends upon a host of variables, including geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, intelligence and context. For example, young children may favour slapstick, such as Punch and Judy puppet shows or cartoons such as Tom and Jerry. Satire may rely more on understanding the target of the humour and thus tends to appeal to more mature audiences.

Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves. The prevailing types of theories attempting to account for the existence of humour include psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider humour-induced behaviour to be very healthy; spiritual theories, which may, for instance, consider humour to be a “gift from God”; and theories which consider humour to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a mystical experience.

  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. ― Jim Henson
  • The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits. ― Albert Einstein
  • The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ― Terry Pratchett
  • The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you. ― Rita Mae Brown
  • A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. ― Henry Ward Beecher
  • A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. ― William Arthur Ward
  • You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. ― Bill Cosby
  • Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. ― Mark Twain
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. ― E. B. White
  • When humor goes, there goes civilization. ― Erma Bombeck
  • The secret to humor is surprise. ― Aristotle
  • I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ― Frank Howard Clark
  • The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ― Peter De Vries
  • I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ― Jerome K. Jerome
  • Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ― Mark Twain
  • There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. ― Bertrand Russell
  • Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. ― Langston Hughes
  • Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. ― Mary Hirsch
  • Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. ― Robert Benchley
  • A study of economics reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. ― Marty Allen
  • I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies. ― Lemony Snicket
  • That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.  ― A. Whitney Brown
  • I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. ― Jane Austen
  • When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'. ― Groucho Marx

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Henry Ford Quotes

Competition is the lifeblood of industry.
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and
sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Although Ford did not invent the automobile, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford to
buy. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put dealerships throughout most of North America and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently.

Ford was also widely known for his pacifism during the first years of World War I, but also for being the publisher of antisemitic texts such as the book The International Jew.

  • Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
  • Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
  • My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
  • Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
  • Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.
  • The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
  • Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
  • Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
  • If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
  • There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
  • An innovator should have understanding of one's customers and their problems via empirical, observational, anecdotal methods or even intuition.
  • If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
  • Those who walk with God, always reach their destination.
  • Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it.
  • Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself
  • Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Thứ Tư, 8 tháng 4, 2015

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Groucho Marx Quotes 2


  • Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.
  • Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
  • Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
  • Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?
  • I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.
  • If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.
  • Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.
  • All people are born alike... except Republicans and Democrats.
  • Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does.
  • A man is only as old as the woman he feels.
  • If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
  • Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
  • The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
  • Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
  • A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
  • Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
  • Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

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Groucho Marx Quotes 1

Marriage is the Chief cause of divorce.
Groucho Marx was born Julius Henry Marx on Oct 2 1890 in New York. He was the third of the five surviving sons of Sam and Minnie Marx. He was the first of the brothers to start a stage career aged 15 in an act called The Leroy Trio. Other acts followed, but none of them was a great success. Twice the other members of the act disappeared overnight and left him penniless in places far away from home.

When his Brothers came on stage they finally has a success with the musical comedy called I'll Say She Is. It was at one of the performances of this show that Groucho got his painted moustache. He arrived late at the theater and used greasepaint to create a moustache. He found this so much easier than a glued-on moustache that he insisted on using this technique from then on.

In the later year of the Brothers movie career Groucho started working on radio. He hosted several programmes and was a guest on many shows. His biggest success was the comedy quiz show You Bet Your Life which started in 1947. The show later moved to television and was on the air until 1961.

Groucho also appeared in a few movies without his brothers.

Always being a liberal, Groucho sometimes made critical remarks about politics and had friends which were regarded as communist the the US of the 1950s. This let to Groucho being investigated by the FBI.

When Marx Brothers became popular again in the late sixties/early seventies Groucho made a comeback with a show in Carnegie Hall in 1972.

At the film festival in Cannes in 1972 he was made Commandeur des Arts et Lettres and in 1974 he received a special Academy Award for the achievements of the Marx Brothers.

Groucho died on August 19th 1977 at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. His ashes are at Eden Memorial Park, San Fernando, California.

  • Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
  • I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
  • When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.
  • From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.
  • Humor is reason gone mad.
  • I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
  • Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
  • I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T  WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
  • Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.
  • One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.
  • Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
  • Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
  • There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

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George Orwell Quotes 2


  • All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
  • We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
  • Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
  • One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
  • The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
  • Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
  • To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
  • Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
  • At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.
  • We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
  • Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
  • We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.
  • Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

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George Orwell Quotes 1

The only good human being is a dead one.
Orwell was a British journalist and author, who wrote two of the most famous novels of the 20th century 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.

Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in eastern India, the son of a British colonial civil servant. He was educated in England and, after he left Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, then a British colony. He resigned in 1927 and decided to become a writer. In 1928, he moved to Paris where lack of success as a writer forced him into a series of menial jobs. He described his experiences in his first book, 'Down and Out in Paris and London', published in 1933. He took the name George Orwell, shortly before its publication. This was followed by his first novel, 'Burmese Days', in 1934.

An anarchist in the late 1920s, by the 1930s he had begun to consider himself a socialist. In 1936, he was commissioned to write an account of poverty among unemployed miners in northern England, which resulted in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' (1937). Late in 1936, Orwell travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans against Franco's Nationalists. He was forced to flee in fear of his life from Soviet-backed communists who were suppressing revolutionary socialist dissenters. The experience turned him into a lifelong anti-Stalinist.

Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC. In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine. By now he was a prolific journalist, writing articles, reviews and books.

In 1945, Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was published. A political fable set in a farmyard but based on Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution, it made Orwell's name and ensured he was financially comfortable for the first time in his life. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' was published four years later. Set in an imaginary totalitarian future, the book made a deep impression, with its title and many phrases - such as 'Big Brother is watching you', 'newspeak' and 'doublethink' - entering popular use. By now Orwell's health was deteriorating and he died of tuberculosis on 21 January 1950.

  • All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
  • He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
  • War is peace.Freedom is slavery.Ignorance is strength.
  • The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own  understanding of their history.
  • If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
  • The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
  • Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
  • Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
  • Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
  • We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
  • There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
  • Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
  • If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

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George Bernard Shaw Quotes 2


  • A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
  • As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
  • Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
  • Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
  • Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
  • You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
  • I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
  • Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
  • The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
  • The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
  • The test of a man’s or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
  • There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
  • A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
  • When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
  • The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
  • Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
  • There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
  • It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
  • A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
  • Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?
  • What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
  • A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
  • Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
  • Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is  Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
  • A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
  • A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
  • There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

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George Bernard Shaw Quotes 1

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent's office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the eighties and nineties and became a prominent member of the Fabian Society, for which he composed many pamphlets. He began his literary career as a
novelist; as a fervent advocate of the new theatre of Ibsen (The Quintessence of Ibsenism, 1891) he decided to write plays in order to illustrate his criticism of the English stage. His earliest dramas were called appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898). Among these, Widower's Houses and Mrs. Warren's Profession savagely attack social hypocrisy, while
in plays such as Arms and the Man and The Man of Destiny the criticism is less fierce. Shaw's radical rationalism, his utter disregard of conventions, his keen dialectic interest and verbal wit often turn the stage into a forum of ideas, and nowhere more openly than in the famous discourses on the Life Force, «Don Juan in Hell», the third act of the dramatization of woman's love chase of man, Man and Superman (1903).

In the plays of his later period discussion sometimes drowns the drama, in Back to Methuselah (1921), although in the same period he worked on his masterpiece Saint Joan (1923), in which he rewrites the well-known story of the French maiden and extends it from the Middle Ages to the present.

Other important plays by Shaw are Caesar and Cleopatra (1901), a historical play filled with allusions to modern times, and Androcles and the Lion (1912), in which he exercised a kind of retrospective history and from modern movements drew deductions for the Christian era. In Major Barbara (1905), one of Shaw's most successful «discussion» plays, the audience's attention is held by the power of the witty argumentation that man can achieve aesthetic salvation only through political activity, not as an individual. The Doctor's Dilemma (1906), facetiously classified as a tragedy by Shaw, is really a comedy the humour of which is directed at the medical profession. Candida (1898), with social attitudes toward sex relations as objects of his satire, and Pygmalion (1912), a witty study of phonetics as well as a clever treatment of middle-class morality and class distinction, proved some of Shaw's greatest successes on the stage. It is a combination of the dramatic, the comic, and the social corrective that gives Shaw's comedies their special flavour.

Shaw's complete works appeared in thirty-six volumes between 1930 and 1950, the year of his death.

  • Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
  • A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
  • Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
  • Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
  • The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
  • You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
  • Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
  • Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
  • The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
  • My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
  • Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
  • Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
  • War does not decide who is right but who is left.
  • When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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Funny Quotes 2

  • Don't be so humble - you are not that great. ― Golda Meir
  • I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. ― Charles Dickens
  • What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. ― Rodney Dangerfield
  • A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas." ― Claude Pepper
  • When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. ― Albert Einstein
  • A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. ― Milton Berle
  • A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. ―  Lana Turner
  • Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. ― Joey Adams
  • My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. ― Ellen DeGeneres
  • Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ― Robert Benchley
  • I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each other’s hands, and how thick their sanitation gloves are. ― Jarod Kintz
  • You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!! ― Bill Watterson
  • Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. ― Dave Barry
  • Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason. ― José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
  • Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. ― Oscar Wilde
  • When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ― Mark Twain
  • Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. ― Unknown
  • My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing. ― Emo Philips
  • I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist. ― Gena Showalter
  • Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. ― Groucho Marx
  • I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people. ― Rodney Dangerfield
  • A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. ― Spike Milligan
  • I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. ― Rodney Dangerfield
  • The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ― Lucille Ball
  • I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. ― Steven Wright

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Funny Quotes 1

One man’s folly is another man’s wife.
Some Funny Facts:
'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.

15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans.

A broken clock is always right twice a day.

The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.

Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not.

A group of frogs is called an army.

Albert Einstein never wore any socks.


  • Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. — John Wilmot
  • When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty. — Norm Crosby
  • If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? — Scott Adams
  • If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. — Anon
  • When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it. — Clarence Darrow
  • Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it. — Cullen Hightower 
  • All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself  deny it. — H. L. Mencken
  • It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on. ― Marilyn Monroe
  • A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.― George Bernard Shaw
  • Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. ― Mae West
  • Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.  ― Hedy Lamarr
  • Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. ― Mark Twain

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes 2


  • Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideas, show me something better, and I will follow you.
  • A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
  • If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.
  • Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
  • When reason fails, the devil helps!
  • The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
  • If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.
  • What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
  • Every ant  knows the  formula of its ant-hill,every  bee knows  the formula  of its  beehive. They know it  in their own way, not in our way.Only humankind does not know its own formula.
  • Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
  • Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
  • Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
  • Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes 1

Be the sun and all will see you.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born October 30, 1821, in Moscow's Hospital for the Poor. He was the second of
seven children born to a former army surgeon, who was murdered in 1839 when his own serfs poured vodka down his throat until he died.

Following a boarding school education in Moscow with his older brother Mikhail, Fyodor was admitted to the Academy of
Military Engineers in St. Petersburg in 1838. He completed his studies in 1843, graduating as a lieutenant, but was quickly
convinced that he preferred a career in writing to being mired in the bureaucratic Russian military. In 1844 he published a
translation of Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, and he followed this two years later with his first original published work, Poor
Folk, a widely-acclaimed short novel championed by the influential critic Vissarion Belinsky.

On April 23, 1849, Dostoevsky was arrested with other members of the Petrashevsky circle and was sentenced to death to work as materialist atheism. He was placed in solitary confinement in the Petropavlovsky Fortress for eight months. During this time, Tsar Nikolai I changed his sentence but ordered that this change only be announced at the last minute. On December 22, Dostoevsky and his fellow prisoners were led through all the initial steps of execution, and several of them were already tied to posts awaiting their deaths when the reprieve was sounded.

Dostoevsky’s harrowing near-execution and his terrible years of imprisonment made an indelible impression on him,converting him to a lifelong intense spirituality. These beliefs formed the basis for his great novels.Time passed, and Dostoevsky, preoccupied with a longer, serialized novel, did no work on the book he had promised Stellovsky until at last, on the advice of friends, he hired the young Anna Grigorievna Snitkin as his stenographer. He dictated The Gambler to her, and the manuscript was delivered to Stellovsky on the very day their agreement was to expire.
Through November, Dostoevsky completed the longer novel Crime and Punishment, which was published that year to immediate and abundant success. Fyodor proposed to Anna, and they soon were wed on February 15, 1867.

Fyodor Dostoevsky died on January 28, 1881, of complications related to his epilepsy. At the funeral procession in St. Petersburg, his coffin was followed by thirty to forty thousand people. His epitaph reads, “verily ,verily ,i say unto you ,except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die ,it abideth alone :but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit .” which is the quotation Dostoevsky chose for the preface of The Brothers Karamazov.

Dostoevsky is one of the first writers to explore the ideas of psychoanalysis in his works. His religious ideas are still relevant in theological debate. He also is one of the seminal creators of the ideas of existentialism. Despite his varying success during his lifetime, today Dostoevsky is considered to be one of the preeminent Russian novelists—indeed, one of the preeminent novelists—of all time.

  • Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
  • What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
  • The darker the night, the brighter the stars,The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
  • People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
  • The soul is healed by being with children.
  • Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
  • Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
  • The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
  • The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
  • The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
  • It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
  • Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.
  • The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

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Ernesto Che Guevara Quotes

Be realistic, Demand the impossible!
Ernesto Che Guevara was an Argentinean-born, Cuban revolutionary leader who became a left-wing hero. A photograph of him by Alberto Korda became an iconic image of the 20th century.

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, known as Che Guevara, was born on 14 June 1928 in Rosario, Argentina into a middle-class family. He studied medicine at Buenos Aires University and during this time travelled widely in South and Central America. The widespread poverty and oppression he witnessed, fused with his interest in Marxism, convinced him that the only solution to South and Central America's problems was armed revolution.

In 1954 he went to Mexico and the following year he met Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. Guevara joined Castro's '26th July Movement' and played a key role in the eventual success of its guerrilla war against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Castro overthrew Batista in 1959 and took power in Cuba. From 1959-1961, Guevara was president of the National Bank of Cuba, and then minister of industry. In this position, he travelled the world as an ambassador for Cuba. At home, he carried out plans for land redistribution and the nationalisation of industry.

A strong opponent of the United States, he guided the Castro regime towards alignment with the Soviet Union. The Cuban economy faltered as a result of American trade sanctions and unsuccessful reforms. During this difficult time Guevara began to fall out with the other Cuban leaders. He later expressed his desire to spread revolution in other parts of the developing world, and in 1965 Castro announced that Guevara had left Cuba.

Guevara then spent several months in Africa, particularly the Congo, attempting to train rebel forces in guerrilla warfare. His efforts failed and in 1966 he secretly returned to Cuba. From Cuba he travelled to Bolivia to lead forces rebelling against the government of René Barrientos Ortuño. With US assistance, the Bolivian army captured Guevara and his remaining fighters. He was executed on 9 October 1967 in the Bolivian village of La Higuera and his body was buried in a secret location. In 1997 his remains were discovered, exhumed and returned to Cuba, where he was reburied.

  • If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
  • Let the world change you than you can change the world.
  • We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
  • I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
  • The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.
  • The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.
  • Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!
  • Words without deeds are worthless.
  • Always struggle for victory.
  • It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
  • To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary … These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution!
  • If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.
  • There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
  • Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am... only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.
  • Homeland or death! We will triumph!
  • Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?
  • Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and
was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.

During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his
later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.

Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Ernest Hemingway died on July 2, 1961.

  • There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
  • All things truly wicked start from innocence.
  • I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
  • Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.
  • Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
  • I drink to make other people more interesting.
  • Write drunk; edit sober.
  • All thinking men are atheists.
  • When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
  • Never confuse movement with action.
  • An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
  • The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
  • In order to write about life first you must live it.
  • When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
  • Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
  • Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her.
  • Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
  • Being against evil doesn't make you good.
  • Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

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Dreams Quotes 2



  • Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ― Oscar Wilde
  • I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time. ― A.A. Milne
  • Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.   ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ― Walt Disney
  • At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. ― Chris Reeve
  • Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. ― Belva Davis
  • Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. ― Abdul Kalam
  • Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer. ― Marcia Wieder
  • You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’  ― George Bernard Shaw
  • Champions aren´t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them –a desire, a dream and a vision. ― Muhammad Ali
  • Stand often in the company of dreamers. They believe you can achieve impossible things. ― Mary Anne Radmacher
  • A dream is not something that you wake up from, but something that wakes you up.― Charlie Hedges

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Dreams Quotes 1

A dream is a wish your heart makes.
A Dream or a Goal is a desired result a system envisions, plans and commits to achieve—a personal or organization-al desired end-point in some sort of assumed development. Many people endeavor to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines.

It is roughly similar to purpose or aim, the anticipated result which guides reaction, or an end, which is an object, either a physical object or an abstract object, that has intrinsic value.

Goal-setting ideally involves establishing specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-targeted objectives. Work on the goal-setting theory suggests that it can serve as an effective tool for making progress by ensuring that participants have a clear awareness of what they must do to achieve or help achieve an objective. On a personal level, the process of setting goals allows people to specify and then work towards their own objectives — most commonly financial or career-based goals.Goal-setting comprises a major component of personal development. A goal can be long-term or short-term.

Achieving complex and difficult goals requires focus, long-term diligence and effort. Success in any field requires forgoing excuses and justifications for poor performance or lack of adequate planning; in short, success requires emotional maturity. The measure of belief that people have in their ability to achieve a personal goal also affects that achievement.

Long term achievements rely on short-term achievements. Emotional control over the small moments of the single day makes a big difference in the long term.

  • You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ― C.S. Lewis
  • A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. ― John Lennon
  • I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living. ― Steven Spielberg
  • The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ― Eleanor Roosevelt
  • The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. ― Oprah Winfrey
  • The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. ― Swami Vivekanada
  • Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. ―  Langston Hughes
  • Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ― Eugene Ionesco
  • I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better. ― Brian Schweitzer
  • Dreams are necessary to life. ― Anaïs Nin
  • Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. ― Joy Page
  • All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ― Walt Disney
  • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ― Mark Twain
  • No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.  ― Anon.
  • A goal is a dream with a deadline. ― Napolean Hill

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Charlie Chaplin Quotes 2



  • All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
  • Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.
  • Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
  • This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
  • Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
  • Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.
  • Humor is the sublime wisdom of pity and tolerance in which man recognizes the utter futility of his own enterprise and importance.
  • Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.
  • I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
  • Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine.
  • Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
  • In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.
  • I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
  • Imagination means nothing without doing.
  • In the end, everything is a gag.

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Charlie Chaplin Quotes 1

A day without laughter is a day wasted.
On April 16, 1889, Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin was born in London, England.

Chaplin, one of the most financially successful stars of early Hollywood, was introduced to the stage when he was five. The son of London music hall entertainers, young Chaplin was watching a show starring his mother when her voice cracked. He was quickly shuffled onto the stage to finish the act.

Chaplin’s father died when Chaplin was a toddler, and when his mother had a nervous breakdown Chaplin and his older half-brother, Sydney, roamed London, where they danced on the streets and collected pennies in a hat. They eventually went to an orphanage and joined the Eight Lancashire Lads, a children’s dance troupe. When Chaplin was 17, he developed his comedic skills with the help of Fred Karno’s company, for which his half-brother had already become a popular comedian. Soon, Chaplin’s bowler hat, out-turned feet, mustache and walking cane became his trademark. He joined the Keystone company and filmed Making a Living, in which he played a mustachioed villain who
wore a monocle. It wasn’t long before he also worked on the other side of the camera, helping direct his 12th film and directing his 13th, Caught in the Rain, on his own.

Chaplin refined what would soon become his legacy, the character Charlie the Tramp, and signed on with the Essanay company in 1915 for $1,250 a week, plus a $10,000 bonus--quite a jump from the $175 that Keystone paid him. The next year, he signed with Mutual for $10,000 a week, plus a $150,000 bonus under a contract that required him to make 12 films annually but granted him complete creative control over the pictures. And in 1918, he signed a contract with First National for $1 million for eight films. A masterful silent film actor and pantomimist who could elicit both
laughter and tears from his audiences, Chaplin resisted the arrival of sound in movies. Indeed, in his first film that featured sound (City Lights in 1931), he only used music. His first true sound film was 1940’s The Great Dictator, in which he mocked fascism.

Chaplin founded United Artists Corporation in 1919 with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and director D.W. Griffith. Chaplin married twice more, both times to teenage girls. His fourth wife, Oona O’Neill, who was 18 when she married the 54-year-old actor, was the daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill. Though he had lived in the United States for 42 years, Chaplin never became a U.S. citizen. A vocal pacifist, Chaplin was accused of communist ties, which he denied. Nevertheless, in 1952, immigration officials prevented Chaplin and his wife from re-entering the United
States after a foreign tour. The couple did not return to the United States for 20 years; instead they settled in Switzerland with their eight children. Chaplin returned to America 1972 to accept a special Academy Award for “the incalculable effect he has had on making motion pictures the art for and of this century.” He was knighted Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin in 1975. He died two years later.

  • You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.
  • I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
  • Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
  • A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
  • We think too much and feel too little.
  • Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
  • Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
  • To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
  • You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
  • What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
  • My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.
  •  But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
  • I will not join any club who will take me as a member.
  • I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It puts me on a far higher place than any politician.
  • The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
  • Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
  • I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
  • All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

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Charles Dickens Quotes

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to classic English literature. He was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable. 

His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'.

Like many others, he began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with the journals 'The Mirror of Parliament' and 'The True Sun'. Then in 1833 he became parliamentary journalist for The Morning Chronicle. With new contacts in the press he was able to publish a series of sketches under the pseudonym 'Boz'. In April 1836, he married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth who edited 'Sketches by Boz'. Within the same month came the publication of the highly successful 'Pickwick Papers', and from that point on there was no looking back for Dickens.

As well as a huge list of novels he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round', wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851. His energy was inexhaustible and he spent much time abroad - for example lecturing against slavery in the United States and touring Italy with companions Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, a contemporary writer who inspired Dickens' final unfinished novel 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'.

He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children, but maintained relations with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. He died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.

  • There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
  • Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
  • Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
  • Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
  • No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
  • There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
  • Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
  • To a young heart everything is fun.
  • My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
  • Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
  • I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
  • For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
  • It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

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Charles Darwin Quotes

Charles Darwin was a British scientist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world.

Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire into a wealthy and well-connected
family. His maternal grandfather was china manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood, while his paternal grandfather was Erasmus Darwin, one of the leading intellectuals of 18th century England.

Darwin himself initially planned to follow a medical career, and studied at Edinburgh University but later switched to divinity at Cambridge. In 1831, he joined a five year scientific expedition on the survey ship HMS Beagle.

At this time, most Europeans believed that the world was created by God in seven days as described in the bible. On the voyage, Darwin read Lyell's 'Principles of Geology' which suggested that the fossils found in rocks were actually evidence of animals that had lived many thousands or millions of years ago. Lyell's argument was reinforced in Darwin's own mind by the rich variety of animal life and the geological features he saw during his voyage. The breakthrough in his ideas came in the Galapagos Islands, 500 miles west of South America. Darwin noticed that each island supported its own form of finch which were closely related but differed in important ways.

On his return to England in 1836, Darwin tried to solve the riddles of these observations and the puzzle of how species evolve. Influenced by the ideas of Malthus, he proposed a theory of evolution occurring by the process of natural selection. The animals (or plants) best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on the characteristics which helped them survive to their offspring. Gradually, the species changes over time.

Darwin worked on his theory for 20 years. After learning that another naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, had developed similar ideas, the two made a joint announcement of their discovery in 1858. In 1859 Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'.

The book was extremely controversial, because the logical extension of Darwin's theory was that homo sapiens was simply another form of animal. It made it seem possible that even people might just have evolved - quite possibly from apes - and destroyed the prevailing orthodoxy on how the world was created. Darwin was vehemently attacked, particularly by the Church. However, his ideas soon gained currency and have become the new orthodoxy.

Darwin died on 19 April 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

  • It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
  • A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
  • The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
  • If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.
  • The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
  • The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
  • Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
  • An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
  • Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
  • In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
  • A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
  • Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

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