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Comment# · Fair (108 ratings) · submitted 1998
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
Comment# · Poor (233 ratings) · submitted 1997
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.
Comment# · Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
Comment# · Fair (771 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Comment# · Fair (57 ratings) · 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.
Comment# · Fair (179 ratings) · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
Comment# · Fair (40 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Comment# · Fair (2776 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Comment# · Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Comment# · Fair (3031 ratings) · submitted 1997
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.
Comment# · Fair (193 ratings) · submitted 1997
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Comment# · Fair (119 ratings) · 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.
Comment# · Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Comment# · Fair (69 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Comment# · Fair (85 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Comment# · Poor (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best which provides most.