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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/ls2p5dcg · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
tiny.ag/6qzazlkw · submitted 1997
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
tiny.ag/oqpuijzx · submitted 1997
Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jgjax6rp · submitted 1999
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
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/poggndv0 · submitted 1997
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
tiny.ag/kjm5ugma · submitted 1997
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
tiny.ag/9kdycunx · submitted 1997
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.
Robert Frost, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/phdwhmxt · submitted 1997
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/bpu9tj3d · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
tiny.ag/iqolobqc · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
tiny.ag/w4s36qc2 · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
tiny.ag/gvohc8br · submitted 1997
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.
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/vmqykh2c · submitted 1997
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/c9ykbift · submitted 1997
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
tiny.ag/wtukmszr · submitted 1997
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
tiny.ag/pxnbu4ey · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.