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tiny.ag/fg9hhljz · submitted 1997
Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.
tiny.ag/tcyzf8gu · submitted 1999 by David Knight
An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.
tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · submitted 1997
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/fpwszor9 · submitted 1997
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
tiny.ag/jcg8ibwt · submitted 1997
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
tiny.ag/bjsd3gdi · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
tiny.ag/o5og0ube · submitted 1997
A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.
tiny.ag/t6xaogci · submitted 1997
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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/64hrko9k · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
tiny.ag/jgjax6rp · submitted 1999
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
tiny.ag/l4pyn7j8 · submitted 1997
I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
tiny.ag/nqhblasx · submitted 1997
It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best which provides most.
tiny.ag/1i8zitnu · submitted 1998
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.
tiny.ag/y7qkjsrf · submitted 1997
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
tiny.ag/jdfanm7k · submitted 1998
Lately I've found that if it weren't for stereotypes, conversation would be much more difficult for the closed-minded.
tiny.ag/up1actjs · submitted 1997
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Unknown, (sometimes, almost certainly incorrectly, attributed to the Buddha), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/toiqhdlg · submitted 1997
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
tiny.ag/c9ykbift · submitted 1997
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.