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tiny.ag/ynhvcg3k · submitted 1997
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
tiny.ag/fjegbeuo · submitted 1997
I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi, (when asked what he thought of Western civilization), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/hdkst9q4 · submitted 1997
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
tiny.ag/hrd6aj12 · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
tiny.ag/bpcdcqq7 · submitted 1997
Hitch your wagon to a star.
tiny.ag/hjlqxeds · submitted 1997
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Christian Nevell Bovee, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/nxwvhtlg · submitted 1997
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
tiny.ag/aoh5h6tb · submitted 1999
Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/nvfl7j9k · submitted 1997
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
tiny.ag/uz9atcqm · submitted 1997
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
tiny.ag/w4s36qc2 · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
tiny.ag/nvdb2cfz · submitted 1997
Burning desire is the eternal flame.
tiny.ag/tcyzf8gu · submitted 1999 by David Knight
An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.
tiny.ag/fznv6alr · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
tiny.ag/yzqij6mr · submitted 1997
I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.
Haldane, in Vice and Virtue and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · submitted 1997
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/j0vq6ox3 · submitted 1997
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
tiny.ag/qh2wpltu · submitted 1997
All mankind loves a lover.
tiny.ag/4xolnjrp · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/iht7l65u · submitted 1997
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.