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tiny.ag/fwsozshx · submitted 1997
If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.
tiny.ag/zwylfryx · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/jwhevbgo · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
tiny.ag/ya1hwz5x · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
tiny.ag/nvdb2cfz · submitted 1997
Burning desire is the eternal flame.
tiny.ag/5gcdbjbx · submitted 1997
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
tiny.ag/950guyxd · submitted 1997
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
tiny.ag/8hodlqqe · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
tiny.ag/nxwvhtlg · submitted 1997
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
tiny.ag/vk93rps4 · submitted 1997
We must become the change we want to see.
tiny.ag/ircejxuc · submitted 1997
You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
tiny.ag/hyedkhd2 · submitted 1997
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
tiny.ag/1jtdasvn · submitted 1997
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
tiny.ag/mtktl96r · submitted 1997
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
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/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/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/czhkruer · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
tiny.ag/zhi7upjz · submitted 1997
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
tiny.ag/dkwhzql3 · submitted 1997
Joy is not in things, it is in us.