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I'd like to point out two things, but my index fingers can't stop moving.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

Virtue: Something we can't truly have.
Vice: Something that, if we have it, will destroy us.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue and Altruism and Cynicism

There is only one thing worse than waging war: being at the mercy of of the merciless.

Unknown, in War and Peace

No, I'm not ready. I don't think that stops me.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

I am certain I know very few things to be true. I am also certain that those few things are the only things that really matter.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism and Wisdom and Ignorance

If a tree falls down in the middle of the forest, and nobody is around to hear it, it does make a sound. The question is why nobody was around.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I once read a few quotes by Bertrand Russell, only to realize Bertrand Russell was ignorant, lazy, and a fanatic by his own estimation. I then stopped reading.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Art and Literature

If someone finds nothing funny, they are called a wise cynic, and they live miserably. If someone else finds only some things funny, they are called normal, and they live normal lives. If a third person finds almost everything funny, they are an idiotic, facetious, foolish clown, but they live happily.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Wisdom and Ignorance

My idea of a perfect date is ending the night knowing there could be a second.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

It takes a special kind of person to make me fall in love, and a therapist to get me to ask the first person out.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

When life gives you lemons, take a shotgun, shove it up your ass, and fire.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

I used to think I was the shit. Then I removed "the".

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

My self-esteem is small, timid, fragile, and out of stock at my local Walmart.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

I would like to thank everyone for being who they are, and please ask that they now refrain from shaming me, and silence their cellphones.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism and Love and Hate

Prejudice is thinking of a joke with bad content, bad delivery, and a horrifying punchline. Discrimination is when you tell the joke.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics

I think the sky in October is the bluest, most clear, and most open thing in the world. But it doesn't have clouds, and clouds are soft and puffy.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

There's a difference between what we want, need, and deserve. We want a fresh-cooked, very hot, fancy, high quality meal at the finest restaurant around. We need a lukewarm bowl of oatmeal taken out of our dirty microwave at home. We deserve to starve to death in the cold somewhere. I think we can all agree that what we need is fine.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty

I often think about the metaphysical or metaphorical wonders that all things are, the complexities of their being or shape or color, and the beauty of their forms. And then I realize things are pretty simple, decently understandable, randomly assorted, always have an ugly side, and are better than my contemplations make them out to be.

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I don't use Facebook that often, and for two reasons: first, so that I don't add friends who won't stay friends long; second, so I don't remember friends I left behind or lost along the way.

Unknown

I never let studying get in the way of my education

Unknown, in Art and Literature and Success and Failure