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All mankind loves a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Rami Belson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.

M. Bernheisel, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.

Werner von Braun, in Success and Failure

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard Aiken, in Success and Failure

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

James Carse, in Life and Death

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Success and Failure

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffer, in Love and Hate

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig van Beethoven, in Success and Failure

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush, in War and Peace

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Cousteau, in Life and Death

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

Dyer, in Work and Recreation

An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.

David Knight, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate