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tiny.ag/fjegbeuo · submitted 1997
I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi, (when asked what he thought of Western civilization), in Law and Politics
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/bpu9tj3d · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
tiny.ag/rdqgrf59 · submitted 1997
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
tiny.ag/d3ttj2ag · submitted 1997
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
tiny.ag/sq9g8eav · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/jx4okg6p · submitted 1999 by Michael A. Loduha
When skunks duel, wind direction is everything.
Michael A. Loduha, (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/2ohv3gf8 · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
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/0adqbc8f · submitted 1997
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
tiny.ag/5rylx71v · submitted 1997
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
tiny.ag/czhkruer · submitted 1997
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
tiny.ag/fznv6alr · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
tiny.ag/ya1hwz5x · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
tiny.ag/iqolobqc · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
tiny.ag/yqo9cx7w · submitted 1997
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
tiny.ag/hudckmys · submitted 1997
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
tiny.ag/j0vq6ox3 · submitted 1997
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.