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The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

 Niels Bohr, in  Science and Religion

It's kinda fun to do the impossible.

 Walt Disney, in  Success and Failure

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

 Robert G. Ingersoll, in  Altruism and Cynicism

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.

 Hans A. Bethe, in  War and Peace

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

 Thomas Dekker, in  Men and Women

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

 Albert Einstein, in  Science and Religion and  Wisdom and Ignorance

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

 John Keats, in  Success and Failure

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

 Edmond Jules Goncourt, in  Art and Literature

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

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.

 Samuel Johnson, in  Art and Literature

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

 Benjamin Disraeli, in  Success and Failure

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.

 Rudyard Kipling, in  Men and Women

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

 Robert Byrne, in  Vice and Virtue

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.

 Albert Einstein, in  Science and Religion

Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

 Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in  Success and Failure

Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.

 Erkki J. Jyrkkanen, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.

 Krystal Ann Kraus, in  Men and Women

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

 Georges Courteline, in  Life and Death

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

 Albert Einstein, in  Science and Religion and  Success and Failure

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

 Lao Tsu, in  Wealth and Poverty