Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Experts tell us that if the Millennium Bug is not fixed, when the year 2000 arrives, our financial records will be inaccurate, our telephone system will be unreliable, our government will be paralyzed and airline flights will be canceled without warning. In other words, things will be pretty much the same as they are now.[Dave Barry] Quote:Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.[Dave Barry] Quote:Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost. This is because the Tokyo street system holds the world outdoor record for randomness. A map of Tokyo looks like a tub of hyperactive bait. There is virtually no street that goes directly from anywhere to anywhere.[Dave Barry] Quote:I have not felt remotely cool for a long time, thanks largely to the relentless efforts of my teenage son, whose goal in life is to make me feel 3,500 years old. We'll be in the car, and he'll say, 'You wanna hear my new CD?' And I, flattered that he thinks his old man might like the same music he does, will say 'Sure!' So he increases the sound-system volume setting from '4' to 'Meteor Impact,' and he puts in a CD by a band with a name like 'Pustule,' and the next thing I know gigantic nuclear bass notes have blown out all the car windows and activated both the driver- and passenger-side air bags, and I'm writhing on the floor, screaming for mercy with jets of blood spurting three feet from my ears. My son then ejects the CD, smiling contentedly, knowing he as purchased a winner. On those extremely rare occasions when I like one of his CDs, I imagine he destroys it with a blowtorch.[Dave Barry] Quote:Life is not a support system for art. It's the other way around.[Stephen King] Quote:From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?[Thomas Paine] Quote:It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Any new system is worth trying when your luck is bad.[Heywood Broun] Quote:How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses?[Charles de Gaulle] Quote:If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.[Plato] Quote:Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. [Stuart Stevens] Quote:Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. [Clifton Fadiman] Quote:Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought. [Bertrand Russell] Definitions of: stemDefinition: To gleam.Definition: The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top. Definition: A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry. Definition: The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. Definition: A branch of a family. Definition: A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow. Definition: Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout. Definition: Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached. Definition: That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean. Definition: The entire central axis of a feather. Definition: The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian. Definition: The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc. Definition: The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base. Definition: To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current. |
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