Quotes from authors passed in 1855
Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Keith Emerson 
Star Jones 
William Robert Grove 
Katherine Mansfield 
Gerhard Schroder 
Joe Manchin 
Marc Garneau 
Anil Kapoor