Vicomte de Chateaubriand

"You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light." [Quotes of the Day]

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."
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Henry David Thoreau

“The question is not what you look at but what you see."

Henry David Thoreau

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."
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Mahatma Gandhi

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
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Thomas Babington Macaulay

"It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it."
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Colin Fletcher

"I was gently accused of escapism during a TV interview about a book I had written on my length-of-California walk. Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back home to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains."

Author ("The Complete Walker") and outdoorsman Colin Fletcher passed away today in Monterey, California.

George Santayana

"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily." [Quotes of the Day]

Artur Schnabel

"Cheap music set to noble words exposes the cheapness of the music; beautiful and profound music set to insignificant words still communicates the beauty of the music." [oboeinsight]

Hubert H. Humphrey

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." [Quotes of the Day]

Diane Feinstein

"Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it."
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George F. Will

"Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings." [Quotes of the Day]