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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/jgjax6rp · ★★☆☆ Fair (1290 ratings) · submitted 1999
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
tiny.ag/x2tnoops · ★★☆☆ Fair (810 ratings) · submitted 1997
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/nxwvhtlg · ★★☆☆ Fair (507 ratings) · submitted 1997
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
tiny.ag/ynhvcg3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1997
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
tiny.ag/iqolobqc · ★★☆☆ Fair (435 ratings) · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
tiny.ag/bmdpgrs0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1377 ratings) · submitted 1997
Let's have some new clichés.
tiny.ag/axybc0uz · ★★☆☆ Fair (2972 ratings) · submitted 1997
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · ★★☆☆ Fair (552 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · ★★☆☆ Fair (407 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1078 ratings) · submitted 1997
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/bjsd3gdi · ★★☆☆ Fair (3008 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
tiny.ag/poggndv0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (2925 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
tiny.ag/64hrko9k · ★★☆☆ Fair (1211 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · ★★☆☆ Fair (499 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kgnpd9wc · ★★☆☆ Fair (384 ratings) · submitted 1998
Even thinking is participation.
tiny.ag/mmclufba · ★★☆☆ Fair (310 ratings) · submitted 1997
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
tiny.ag/ya1hwz5x · ★★☆☆ Fair (321 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
tiny.ag/c9ykbift · ★★☆☆ Fair (769 ratings) · submitted 1997
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
tiny.ag/b3ohbca1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · 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.