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tiny.ag/dxbh08ml · submitted 1997
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
tiny.ag/ig3zfjp4 · submitted 1997
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
tiny.ag/5gcdbjbx · submitted 1997
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
tiny.ag/mmclufba · submitted 1997
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
tiny.ag/7alftveq · submitted 1997
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
tiny.ag/t9m3smqg · submitted 1997
Women make love for love, men make love for lust.
Derrick Harge, in Love and Hate and Men and Women
tiny.ag/otueqvds · submitted 1997
A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
tiny.ag/iulae0a9 · submitted 1997
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
John A. Locke, sometimes incorrectly attributed to John Locke, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/orx9er1h · submitted 1997
The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
tiny.ag/koexwc3k · submitted 1997
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
tiny.ag/c6jkeq5x · submitted 1997
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
tiny.ag/czhkruer · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
tiny.ag/frswba1z · submitted 1997
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
tiny.ag/bpu9tj3d · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
tiny.ag/mydapq7x · submitted 1999 by Megan
To accomplish great things, you must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.
tiny.ag/i5ba47dl · submitted 1997
It gets late early out there.
Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/z91tc0go · submitted 1997
It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
tiny.ag/ufko7fwv · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
tiny.ag/raffprlg · submitted 1997
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
tiny.ag/qiy9xdhn · submitted 1997
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance