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tiny.ag/04lm8ot1 · submitted 1997
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
tiny.ag/ucas5skv · submitted 1997
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
tiny.ag/r3davdhl · submitted 1997
In war, there is no substitute for victory.
tiny.ag/8d5pktgj · submitted 1997
A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
Dyer, Dyer's Law, in Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/9whxy8s7 · submitted 1997
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
tiny.ag/ircejxuc · submitted 1997
You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
tiny.ag/asaliq9g · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/b3ohbca1 · submitted 1998
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.
tiny.ag/p6bwfqfr · submitted 1997
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
tiny.ag/w4s36qc2 · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
tiny.ag/tgkornhe · submitted 1997
Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/bnnutdd7 · submitted 1997
Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
tiny.ag/f6aon4ji · submitted 1998
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/hjlqxeds · submitted 1997
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Christian Nevell Bovee, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/pbhm4rie · submitted 1997
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
tiny.ag/dozch5ts · submitted 1997
Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
tiny.ag/mglnajv0 · submitted 1997
It is impossible to love and be wise.
tiny.ag/6jxieopf · submitted 1997
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/sq9g8eav · submitted 1997
