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tiny.ag/hobsgyde · submitted 1997
Why be a man when you can be a success?
tiny.ag/qycsaode · submitted 1997
When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/cgjakfr4 · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
tiny.ag/vk93rps4 · submitted 1997
We must become the change we want to see.
tiny.ag/vfmz7cvr · submitted 1997
If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.
tiny.ag/ig3zfjp4 · submitted 1997
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
tiny.ag/yamidgsg · 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/gvfo9jw1 · submitted 1997
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
tiny.ag/lmbiznpc · submitted 1997
It's not over until it's over.
tiny.ag/kjm5ugma · submitted 1997
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
tiny.ag/8dgit6e3 · submitted 1997
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
tiny.ag/bqie1hj5 · submitted 1998
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
tiny.ag/up1actjs · 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/i0nu42ok · submitted 1997
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
tiny.ag/iulae0a9 · submitted 1997
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
John A. Locke, sometimes incorrectly attributed to John Locke, in Science and Religion
tiny.ag/gokrtfpu · submitted 1997
If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
tiny.ag/1i8zitnu · submitted 1998
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.
tiny.ag/f7dpm5bc · submitted 1997
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
tiny.ag/5rylx71v · submitted 1997
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
tiny.ag/cz34szjm · submitted 1997
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion