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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.


Joseph Bayly

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JOSEPH PRIESTLEY The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
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JOSEPH CONRAD There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
JOSEPH BRODSKY I remember on one of my many visits with JOSEPH LEWIS I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your ow...
JOSEPH CONRAD Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling wh...
JOSEPH CONRAD Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
JOSEPH CONRAD Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
JOSEPH BARTH It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.
JOSEPH FOUCHE The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The g...
JOSEPH SUGARMAN Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL An old Apache storyteller reminds us:

JOSEPH CAMPBELL We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark...
JOSEPH FARRELL Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to...
JOSEPH CANNON We always plan too much and always think too little.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER