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Comment# · Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Comment# · Fair (3032 ratings) · submitted 1997
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.
Comment# · Fair (262 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
Comment# · Fair (182 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in
Science and Religion and
Wisdom and Ignorance
Comment# · Fair (148 ratings) · submitted 1997
A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
Comment# · Fair (438 ratings) · 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
Health and Disease and
Vice and Virtue
Comment# · Fair (253 ratings) · submitted 1997
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
Comment# · Fair (185 ratings) · submitted 1997
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.
Comment# · Fair (197 ratings) · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
Comment# · Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Comment# · Fair (812 ratings) · submitted 1998
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in
Success and Failure
Comment# · Fair (184 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.
Comment# · Fair (125 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
Comment# · Fair (185 ratings) · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in
Science and Religion and
Success and Failure