When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

Marissa Mayer

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

Immanuel Kant

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

Libby Trickett

If you think that every bad thing that has been done on the face of the earth has been done by man, you're right -- but so has every good thing.

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She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called. The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feelings; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light, which yesterday had produced. But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude.--Gratitude not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister. Such a change in a man of so much pride, excited not only astonishment but gratitude--for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed; and as such its impression on her was of a sort to be encouraged, as by no means unpleasing, though it could not exactly be defined.

Jane Austen

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.

Busy Philipps

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Richard Cobden

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

Carl Sagan

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

Colin Chapman