Some quotes

Just thinking about some of my favourite quotes: 

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take up exercise, get up early, or be respectable” ….Oscar Wilde

“Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. Then, when you pass judgement, you’re a mile away… and you have his shoes.” …..anon 

“if they sent the bigwigs to the front, then the war would be over just like that !    Hans Fallada

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. - Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha

And crawling on the planet’s face , some insects called the human race.
Lost in time,  and lost in space … And meaning.” Richard O’brien

fates of men….we play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style” Terry Pratchet

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.” - - Richard Dawkins, Unweaving The Rainbow, 1998.

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