From 0b04d6aeadaedc04fe8d9c2f38c794403a271a2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bernie Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 10:40:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Edit page GreatQuotes --- GreatQuotes | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/GreatQuotes b/GreatQuotes index 79be2f7..fe988a6 100644 --- a/GreatQuotes +++ b/GreatQuotes @@ -6,16 +6,16 @@ -- [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1276812-there-are-many-causes-that-i-am-prepared-to-die | Gandhi]] "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." \\ --- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] again +-- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] again "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality." \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr.]] +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr.]] "I only know one race: the human one." \\ — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." \\ — [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates#Plutarch | Socrates]], circa 400 BC @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ the individual towards freedom. \\ == On Knowledge and Education == "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]] +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]] "Mainly play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those. \\ That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes." \\ @@ -66,7 +66,11 @@ It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” \\ — [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929 "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] \\ +"Facts are stubborn things." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams | John Adams]] \\ +"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." \\ +— Christopher Hitchens \\ "I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\ No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\ @@ -75,20 +79,21 @@ of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\ if we leave the people in ignorance." \\ — [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786) + == On Living a Good Life == "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] "Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] "It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. \\ Hack away at the unessential." \\ — [[https://www.brucelee.com/podcast-blog/2017/6/28/52-hack-away-the-unessentials | Bruce Lee]] "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | Mother Teresa of Calcutta]] +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | Mother Teresa of Calcutta]] "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." \\ — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock | Spock]], Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan @@ -108,4 +113,4 @@ Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friend 1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\ 2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed. \\ -— [[http://www.fidonet.org/policy4.txt | The FidoNet Policy 4.07, 1989]] +— [[https://www.fidonet.org/policy4.txt | The FidoNet Policy 4.07, 1989]] -- 2.25.1