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tiny.ag/qycsaode · submitted 1997
When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/mqbuthzj · submitted 1997 by Brad Johnson
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
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/rnxbf2ho · submitted 1998
I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.
tiny.ag/jgjax6rp · submitted 1999
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
tiny.ag/1zzynlyn · submitted 1997
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
tiny.ag/06lybgnu · submitted 1998
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.
Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dkwhzql3 · submitted 1997
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
tiny.ag/ujvv0yxq · submitted 1997
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
tiny.ag/ynhvcg3k · submitted 1997
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
tiny.ag/iobj0muk · submitted 1997
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the 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/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/poggndv0 · submitted 1997
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
tiny.ag/o7yghtxb · submitted 1999
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell, 1984, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/ls2p5dcg · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
tiny.ag/bpu9tj3d · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
tiny.ag/hfx4m7bz · submitted 1998 by David Shorr
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ndscvllq · submitted 1997
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.