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tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/gvohc8br · ★★☆☆ Fair (3332 ratings) · submitted 1997
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.
tiny.ag/8vmi9s0a · ★★☆☆ Fair (492 ratings) · submitted 1997
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.
tiny.ag/orx9er1h · ★★☆☆ Fair (383 ratings) · submitted 1997
The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
tiny.ag/8d5pktgj · ★★☆☆ Fair (491 ratings) · submitted 1997
A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
Dyer, Dyer's Law, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · ★★☆☆ Fair (407 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
tiny.ag/jgjax6rp · ★★☆☆ Fair (1290 ratings) · submitted 1999
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
tiny.ag/kge2ejcq · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
tiny.ag/ls2p5dcg · ★★☆☆ Fair (283 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
tiny.ag/fznv6alr · ★★☆☆ Fair (554 ratings) · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
tiny.ag/eoc1jiyu · ★★☆☆ Fair (591 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
tiny.ag/hjlqxeds · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · 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/6qzazlkw · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
tiny.ag/9qotdgih · ★★☆☆ Fair (684 ratings) · submitted 1999
Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.
tiny.ag/nzeorxiy · ★★☆☆ Fair (464 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
tiny.ag/5gcdbjbx · ★★☆☆ Fair (413 ratings) · submitted 1997
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
tiny.ag/iht7l65u · ★★☆☆ Fair (521 ratings) · submitted 1997
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
tiny.ag/rdqgrf59 · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
tiny.ag/ctd7inn0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (637 ratings) · submitted 1997
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.
tiny.ag/ev3fc9xo · ★★☆☆ Fair (935 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Tom Lehrer, (from the album An Evening Wasted), in Life and Death