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tiny.ag/gwiaxqqe · submitted 1997
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
tiny.ag/iv0n7jxr · submitted 1997
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
tiny.ag/p7nfwxgq · submitted 1997
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
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/hobsgyde · submitted 1997
Why be a man when you can be a success?
tiny.ag/hoklinq4 · submitted 1997
Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.
tiny.ag/hdkst9q4 · submitted 1997
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
tiny.ag/fed8pqej · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
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/nvfl7j9k · submitted 1997
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
tiny.ag/j0xwttzq · submitted 1997
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
tiny.ag/hrd6aj12 · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
tiny.ag/tmupilkz · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
tiny.ag/nxwvhtlg · submitted 1997
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
tiny.ag/m6lj8yot · submitted 1997
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
tiny.ag/nzeorxiy · submitted 1997
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
tiny.ag/poggndv0 · submitted 1997
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
tiny.ag/zdvgyvsm · submitted 1997
Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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