Posts from ‘December, 2009’

Archimedes Quotes and Sayings

Share Archimedes was known more for his principles and inventions than his quotes. He invented the Archimedes screw, which one one of his most popular practical inventions for drawing water. He also designed the claw for sinking enemy ships. He also invented several concepts on geometry. Few of his quotes are: Eureka! I’ve got it. [...]

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Billy Idol Quotes and Sayings

Share The biggest misconception people have about me is that I’m stupid. ~Billy Idol I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore. ~Billy Idol I’ll share, I need you there. All times of rain, all fear like pain. A new moon, a warm sun, a time [...]

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Buddha Quotes and Sayings

Share Gautama Buddha was an Indian prince born in the mid 400 BCs. He left his Palace, and family to live the life of a Hermit in the Jungles and attain Nirvana, which he did. Millions of people follow Buddhism today, and we can relate Peace with Buddhism which is rare for a religion. Dalai [...]

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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes and Sayings

Share A picture is worth a thousand words. A leader is a dealer in hope. A true man hates no one. Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. Ability is [...]

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Charles Darwin Quotes and Sayings

Share As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. A man who [...]

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Charles Dickens Quotes and Sayings

Share Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. Any man may be in good spirits and good [...]

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Winston Churchill Quotes and Sayings

Share Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? In time of war, when truth [...]

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes and Sayings

Share War is a contagion. Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God. There are as many opinions as there are experts. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. But while they [...]

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Homer Quotes and Sayings

Share Wisdom never lies. Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing, and dancing sooner than war. A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly. In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those [...]

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Euclid Quotes and Sayings

Share The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. Typically when we have property like this we’ll sell if for less to get it back on the tax rolls. There is no royal road to geometry. ~Ptolemy the First once asked Euclid whether there was any shorter way to a knowledge of [...]

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