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Quotes

Most Favored

  1. Chance favors the prepared mind.
  2. If you are not getting better, you are getting worse.

Leonhard Euler

  • Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself.

Bruce Lee

  • Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Abraham Lincoln

  • If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Kevin Napier

  • If you aren't getting better, you are getting worse.
  • It is always preferable to be in control of your own destiny.

Louis Pasteur

  • Chance favors the prepared mind.

Sun Tzu

  • Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
  • All warfare is based on deception.

Biblical Scriptures

  • Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Job 38:4
  • If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Psalms 50:12
  • Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Jeremiah 33:3
  • In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. John 1:1-4
  • But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 1 Corinthians 4:27

Movies

Most Favored

  1. The Matrix
  2. The Sound of Music
  3. The Usual Suspects
  4. What Dreams May Come
  5. Silence of the Lambs
  6. Groundhog Day
  7. Fritz Lang's Metropolis
  8. Akira
  9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  10. City of God

Music

Most Favored

Groups

Propellerheads, Bread, America, Journey, Incubus, Queen, Pink Floyd, Röyksopp, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marshall Tucker Band, Foreigner, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, The Shins, Thievery Corporation, The Doobie Brothers

Artists

Billy Joel, Dan Fogelberg, Gordon Lightfoot, Kenna, Jim Croce, Sting, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, John Denver, Chris Bell, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Junior Brown, James Taylor, Beck

Beverages

Most Favored

  1. Orange Juice
  2. Coca-Cola