For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
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PM Quote of the Day — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.
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PM Quote of the Day — Benjamin Franklin
Posted on May 21, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Update: Who exactly is this Benjamin “Frankling“? Sorry for the typo…
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PM Quote of the Day — Albert Einstein
Posted on May 20, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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PM Quote of the Day — Galileo Galilei
Posted on May 19, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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PM Quote of the Day — Benjamin Franklin
Posted on May 19, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
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PM Quote of the Day — George Canning
Posted on May 18, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
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PM Quote of the Day — Mark Twain
Posted on May 14, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
Note that this quote is sometimes attributed to Blaise Pascal.
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PM Quote of the Day — Jane Austen
Posted on May 7, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
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PM Quote of the Day — Arnold Palmer
Posted on May 6, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
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