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tiny.ag/zzbstsyk · submitted 1997
If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
tiny.ag/9whxy8s7 · submitted 1997
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
tiny.ag/ikcjtldg · submitted 1997
A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
tiny.ag/npf5ywfi · submitted 1997
He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
tiny.ag/fznv6alr · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
tiny.ag/y7qkjsrf · submitted 1997
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
tiny.ag/6qzazlkw · submitted 1997
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
tiny.ag/mb7skahf · submitted 1997
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
tiny.ag/da1k6tun · submitted 1999 by Stephen
All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.
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/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/s3j4zgfm · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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/1i8zitnu · submitted 1998
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.
tiny.ag/axybc0uz · submitted 1997
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
tiny.ag/x2tnoops · submitted 1997
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/isf8vo05 · submitted 1997
Delay is preferable to error.
tiny.ag/bpcdcqq7 · submitted 1997
Hitch your wagon to a star.
tiny.ag/8vmi9s0a · submitted 1997
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance