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Commenttiny.ag/zzbstsyk · ★★☆☆ Fair (275 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
Commenttiny.ag/5x9cvfxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (242 ratings) · submitted 1997
I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
Commenttiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
Commenttiny.ag/dxbh08ml · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Commenttiny.ag/cz34szjm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1108 ratings) · submitted 1997
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion
Commenttiny.ag/5rylx71v · ★★☆☆ Fair (389 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
Commenttiny.ag/fjegbeuo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1058 ratings) · submitted 1997
I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi, (when asked what he thought of Western civilization), in Law and Politics
Commenttiny.ag/jx4okg6p · ★★☆☆ Fair (1050 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Michael A. Loduha
When skunks duel, wind direction is everything.
Michael A. Loduha, (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series), in Law and Politics
Commenttiny.ag/yzqij6mr · ★★☆☆ Fair (766 ratings) · 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 Health and Disease and Vice and Virtue
Commenttiny.ag/9qotdgih · ★★☆☆ Fair (684 ratings) · submitted 1999
Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.
Commenttiny.ag/br8cx6zt · ★★☆☆ Fair (628 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
Commenttiny.ag/6qzazlkw · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Commenttiny.ag/j0vq6ox3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (406 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
Commenttiny.ag/kjm5ugma · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1997
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Commenttiny.ag/1jtdasvn · ★★☆☆ Fair (1273 ratings) · submitted 1997
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Commenttiny.ag/hfx4m7bz · ★★☆☆ Fair (555 ratings) · submitted 1998 by David Shorr ·
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance
The Satyricon (paperback)Commenttiny.ag/koexwc3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (364 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
Commenttiny.ag/1txkpoby · ★★☆☆ Fair (1213 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
Commenttiny.ag/wujpidqy · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1999
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.