There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. -- Doctor Who
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. -- William Proxmire
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. -- Thomas Sowell
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. -- John D. Rockfeller
Whenever you fall, pick something up. -- Oswald Avery
Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on the front door forever.
God Himself doesn't propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should
you?
Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. -- Ouida (pen name of Marie Louise de la Ramee)
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. -- Victor Frankl
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? -- Coach John Wooden
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. -- H.L. Mencken
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H.L. Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H.L. Mencken
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey
Democracy is the road to socialism. -- Karl Marx
Because television can make so much money doing its worst, it often cannot afford to do its best. -- Fred Friendly
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. -- Peter Ustinov
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
The average American drives 29 miles a day, according to federal highway statistics. If you rode a bicycle just 29 miles per week for one year instead of driving, you'd single-handedly reduce auto emissions by 1,248 pounds, to say nothing of the 19 pounds' worth of calories you'd burn, or the $814 you'd save in gas and car maintenance and depreciation costs. -- Loren Mooney, Bicycling Magazine, September 2009
There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague
enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population. -- Paul Rusesabagina
Wars are the side-effects of nationalism. -- Yahia Lababidi
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare. -- Sun Tzu
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. -- Karl Kraus
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. -- Ernest Benn
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. -- Eric Hoffer
I place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
-- Ken Hakuta
Seventy percent of the oil burned in the U.S. is for transportation. If we boosted fuel efficiency standards to 40 miles per gallon, we could eliminate oil imports. -- Richard N. Goldman
Fight the tendency to quit while you're behind. -- Dave Weinbaum
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. -- Dave Weinbaum
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. -- Baltasar Gracian
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. -- Bryan White
The most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can. -- Dave Weinbaum
Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. -- Elaine St. James
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown - as for children - the days are long with gathering of experience. -- George Gissing
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. -- George Pataki
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. -- Barbara Johnson
You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once and move on. -- Homer Simpson
If you can control your attitude, you can control your life. -- Sid Caesar
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. -- Abraham Lincoln
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. -- Arthur Ashe
Genius has limits - stupidity does not.
Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority. -- Doctor Who, fictional English Sci-Fi character
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. -- William Butler Yeats
Failure is the path of least resistance.
If you choose to make the journey, you will always find the guides.
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse.
The wiser mind mourns less for what age take away than what it leave behind. -- William Wordsworth
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward. -- Soren Kierkgaard
Maybe if we did a better job of listening, history wouldn't have to repeat itself.
The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win. -- Zhuge Liang
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is. -- Catfish Hunter
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. -- Ouida
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. -- John S. Coleman
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. -- Andrew V. Mason, M.D.
I am braver than I was, because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks. -- from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. -- Arnold Glasow
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. -- Dr. Seuss
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -- Colette
Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk. -- Charan Singh
Our main business is not to see dimly what lies at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest. -- William Shakespeare
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo DaVinci
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the
ability to learn from the experience of others, are also
remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
People forget that it is the eye which makes the
horizon.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. -- Voltaire
We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with
fear.
Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a
lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight
it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or
physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must
shine light on it. -- Shakti Gawain
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. -- William Butler Yeats
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. -- Marcus Aurelius
Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas.
Success is the quality of your journey. -- Jennifer James
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it
will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -- Herm Albright
Efficiency is intelligent laziness. -- David Dunham
Intellectuals solve problems: geniuses prevent them. -- Albert Einstein
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
-- Norman Cousins
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
-- Jean Paul Richter
We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are. -- Anaïs Nin
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. -- William Blake
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice -- George Jackson
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. -- Steven Weinberg
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison
Silence is a text easy to misread. -- A. A. Attanasio
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -- William James
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening. -- Pat Metheny
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