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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/gokrtfpu · ★★☆☆ Fair (563 ratings) · 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/phdwhmxt · ★★☆☆ Fair (632 ratings) · submitted 1997
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/yamidgsg · ★★☆☆ Fair (519 ratings) · 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/fpwszor9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
tiny.ag/p7nfwxgq · ★★☆☆ Fair (455 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
tiny.ag/bnnutdd7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (378 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
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/4xolnjrp · ★★☆☆ Fair (502 ratings) · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ojpztwu9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (420 ratings) · submitted 1997
Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
tiny.ag/gfpih4lb · ★★☆☆ Fair (315 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
tiny.ag/hjlqxeds · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · 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/tgkornhe · ★★☆☆ Fair (1100 ratings) · 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/ikcjtldg · ★★☆☆ Fair (451 ratings) · submitted 1997
A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
tiny.ag/2cctxyhg · ★★☆☆ Fair (610 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
tiny.ag/w4s36qc2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (502 ratings) · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
tiny.ag/hifvkpkc · ★★☆☆ Fair (328 ratings) · submitted 1997
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
tiny.ag/dlefcimh · ★★☆☆ Fair (589 ratings) · submitted 1997
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
tiny.ag/gvohc8br · ★★☆☆ Fair (3332 ratings) · submitted 1997
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.
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