Wit & Wisdom
W.H. Auden, Michael Jordan, Ursula K. Le Guin
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
W.H. Auden, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.”
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Humorist Dave Barry, quoted in Sacramento Magazine
“Be alone—that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
Nikola Tesla, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
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Basketball legend Michael Jordan, quoted in The Irish Times
“There are no right answers to wrong questions.”
Science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin, quoted in The Village Voice
“It is the weakness and danger of republics that the vices as well as virtues of the people are represented in their legislation.”
Author Helen Hunt Jackson, quoted in the Associated Press
“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
Soren Kierkegaard, quoted in the Nashville Tennessean
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