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tiny.ag/2cctxyhg · ★★☆☆ Fair (610 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.
tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (558 ratings) · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
tiny.ag/06lybgnu · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · submitted 1998
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.
Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/zwylfryx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1391 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/ocxoq7dr · ★★☆☆ Fair (516 ratings) · submitted 1997
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
tiny.ag/kl7xzzq3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1039 ratings) · submitted 1997
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
tiny.ag/yamidgsg · ★★☆☆ Fair (519 ratings) · submitted 1999
Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.
tiny.ag/gesq5cpw · ★★☆☆ Fair (357 ratings) · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
tiny.ag/l4pyn7j8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (472 ratings) · submitted 1997
I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
tiny.ag/tcyzf8gu · ★★☆☆ Fair (1560 ratings) · submitted 1999 by David Knight
An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.
tiny.ag/ultj3i4v · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
tiny.ag/koexwc3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (364 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
tiny.ag/fsnkyl1j · ★★☆☆ Fair (578 ratings) · submitted 1997
To generalize is to be an idiot.
tiny.ag/up1actjs · ★★☆☆ Fair (444 ratings) · submitted 1997
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Unknown, (sometimes, almost certainly incorrectly, attributed to the Buddha), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/i5ba47dl · ★★☆☆ Fair (478 ratings) · submitted 1997
It gets late early out there.
Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/fed8pqej · ★★☆☆ Fair (1052 ratings) · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
tiny.ag/rxe07t5e · ★★☆☆ Fair (506 ratings) · submitted 1997
Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.
tiny.ag/t6xaogci · ★★☆☆ Fair (576 ratings) · submitted 1997
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · ★★☆☆ Fair (407 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
tiny.ag/7alftveq · ★★☆☆ Fair (550 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.