1. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
--Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
2. Nostalgia of any kind isn't a longing for the time, it's a longing for the person you were, the place you held, and the people who were around you. That has changed, but it was going to change anyway. It always does. --Katharine Pilkington
3. The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in slience, but restraint. --Marianne Moore
4. Life is short and the art is long. Experience is fleeting, experiment treacherous, and judgement difficult. --Hippocrates
5. Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians. --Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
1. Love Oscar Wilde and his idealism and total faith that the human soul was beauteous.
2. Though heaven and earth should pass away...
3. I am not sure I believe her - there is too much gender, culture, and personality baggage in that statement. But I do remember the moments I felt the worst involved a lot of frozen silence.
4. Sing it, Hippocrates. Science is hard. As a method for discovering physical truths, it is the worst except for all the others.
5. Card does petulant like nothing else, but he's not wrong here.
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