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tiny.ag/0hxx1p7l  ·  submitted 2002

The Ignorant hopes for your ignorance and hates you for your cognizance.

Oyeniyi Dada, From my musings.

tiny.ag/i9mavhvx  ·  submitted 2002

The Moment is dynamic and changes too fast...Live for the Moment and the Moment will leave you in the Past.

Oyeniyi Dada, Counter to James Dean's "Live as if..."

tiny.ag/imedas2m  ·  submitted 2002

For your success be thankful. At least a thousand people are better at what you do, but will never be as successful as you.

Oyeniyi Dada, From my musings.

tiny.ag/iwyyejpp  ·  submitted 2002

The Liar should always be by himself. The pathological liar cheats you, but "honestly" believes he does a favor...he lies even to himself.

Oyeniyi Dada, From my musings.

tiny.ag/lmf7bqv6  ·  submitted 2002

People desire your failure when you fail to fulfil their desire.

Oyeniyi Dada, From my musings.

tiny.ag/al5gktqm  ·  submitted 2002

The Failure fails at everything, including preventing your success.

Oyeniyi Dada, From my musings.

tiny.ag/bltnwnpa  ·  submitted 2002

The Failure will seek to block your path to success, but will characteristically fail, as he`s a failure.

Oyeniyi Dada, From my musings.

tiny.ag/dwz8whti  ·  submitted 2002

The Fool fools no other than a fool.
The Fool takes his enemy for a fool.
He pays his dues in full.
(As the Fool can only fool a fool, he also fools himself).

Oyeniyi Dada, From my musings.

tiny.ag/nvd59mjl  ·  submitted 2002

Thus, it is the aim of good government to
stimulate production, of bad government to encourage
consumption."


Jean-Baptiste Say, "A Treatise on Political Economy", 1803

tiny.ag/bgimqj4v  ·  submitted 2002

Wealth is hard to come by, but poverty is always at hand.

Proverbs from Ki-en-gir (Sumer), c. 2000, Internet History Sourcebooks-Fordham U.

tiny.ag/lefzpry0  ·  submitted 2002

It is possible to meet the sceptic who believes that everything began in himself. He doubts not the existence of angels or devils, but of men and cows. ... Then when this kindly world all around the man has been blackened out like a lie...then the great individualistic motto shall be written over him in avenging irony. ... [O]ver his cell shall be written, "He believes in himself."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tiny.ag/dw5mbfsk  ·  submitted 2002

Birth control: less birth, no control.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

tiny.ag/dwqcrejb  ·  submitted 2002

give a smile and recieve a smile

Unknown

tiny.ag/fsnefvcy  ·  submitted 2002

A closed book gets the same amount of use as a closed mind.

Me, My high school mind

tiny.ag/17i3bkt0  ·  submitted 2002

If you want something done half way ask a man, but if you want something done right the first time ask a WOMAN!

Charity Bryan

tiny.ag/wyz1p7t2  ·  submitted 2002

Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.

Hipolito, from the movie Amelie

tiny.ag/7aukxlit  ·  submitted 2002

"But he meant well" should be the ultimate damnation in the english language. If we had a lick of sense about us, the moment some miscreant called up that wretched defense for his crimes, we would regard it as proof of the true vileness of his misdeeds and redouble our thrashing of him. The wickedest, stupidest, and most destructive deeds of humanity done by people who "meant well" outstrip those done by the wilfully malicious by a hundredfold.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/ynlojif2  ·  submitted 2002

Leftists are the stupid led by the wicked.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/f5ke83ol  ·  submitted 2002

Our greatest moral failure is to credit the morally corrupt with noble intentions-- or act as if noble intentions made evil any less than what it is.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/6ylcbyrl  ·  submitted 2002

"Bad humor is
an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."

Malcolm Muggeridge, former editor of Punch Magazine

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